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Im look at getting an 8 TB. 10 to 12 can get up to over 400 dollars here in Australia . Especially if you purchase an external drive with networking and other goodies like encryption.
Personally Ive had no problems with Western Digital. I have a 1TB WD My Book purchased over 10yrs ago that's chokers full of porn and its still going. I don't rate seagate. Had a 2TB drive that failed on me after a couple of years and I lost lots of photos so Ive avoided them but WD seems to last. I have a WD 3TB which is filling up fast due to all my Nikon raw files. So need one soon. |
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>>>I don't rate seagate. Had a 2TB drive that failed on me after a couple of years and I lost lots of photos
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ONE BACKUP IS NEVER ENOUGH. I have FOUR 4TB External hard drives and all my personal files (going back to about 1999 when I started making backups) is on all of them (the same files are on all of them). One of them is at a nearby relatives house. Overkill maybe, but I have worked in computers for 40 years and know that all sorts of things can go wrong with backups. As a minimum I would have everything backed up on to TWO EHDs, also in the cloud as well if possible. This does not include my porn which is on a 6TB "bare" drive (nearly full) and backed up to another "bare" 6TB drive. I also have some "old" porn backed up / archived on a few "bare" 4TB drives that I took out of some EHDs when they failed. This is mainly old files in long forgotten formats like AVI, WMV, MPG, FLV etc, also many low quality MP4 files (everything less than 720 quality) btw Bare above means they are NOT in External Hard drive cases but standalone. As I have a desktop PC I can put a second hard drive in there when I want to look at or download porn, then take it out when I have finished. I also have two desktop PCs so I can put one 6TB in one and the other 6TB in the other and easily copy files from my main porn disk to my backup disk. Lost track of how many hard drives I have in total as I also have a number of 500MB and 1TB drives. Probably about 40 hard drives in all which I have collected over the years (I do have 6 PCs and have a W7 disk and a W10 disk for both) . |
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I would recommend a Helium filled drive for 6TB and over, but it depends how modern they are and how many platters are in the drive.
The 6TB 7200rpm drives from 2017 run too hot for my liking. If a drive is nearly too hot too touch, that's too hot in my system which has multiple drives spinning. Helium is lighter than air and the friction from the Helium over the spinning platters is much less than air. I mean, 7 or 8 degrees less. Manufacturers are quite proud to tell you when a drive has Helium in. If they don't say so, you can be sure it's not in there. |
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and I hate rar files which slow things down But yes you have to do it as you go along, or the task becomes overwhelming
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Thats why I now name my files (the ones I upload) the way I archive them like this: Performer Name Or Paysite - Scene Title - Any Extra Info.extension Its easy for downloaders to re-label them to their liking or keep it as is. I am trying to get my 100´s of TB archived properly but every day that goes by I download more than I organize so its a life time project for me |
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My 10TB drive is getting close to full
So I need to decide between getting a 12TB (may do for 2 years before full) or a 14TB may last for 4 or 5 years? PS I don't like splitting my "data" accross several drives And I like to have 2 backup disks (on on site and 1 off site)
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10 TB is a ridiculous amount to depend on spinning rust.
Only way I'd remotely attempt it is RAID 5 or 10. Multiple drives with redundancy/rebuildability is the only real hope you have. Even in these mega-storage rich days, 10+ TB is a large amount, but certainly doable. You just need real server storage. Find yourself a nice, used NAS storage server. Code:
http://vibrant.com/data-storage/index.html If you're serious about it, do it right. If not, do a daily/weekly DVD burn or a 128 GB thumb drive per week or something mounted in usb hubs daisy chained. No matter what, placing 10TB of data on a single drive is just asking for a spikey-boot game of roshambo, and entropy always goes first...
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I have two backup disks,one on site and one off site.
Do you have an offisite backup of your RAID?
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