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you ever consider a NAS?I use either WD or SEAGATE extrernal Hard Drives of between 2TB and 5TB capacity.
These are the most cost effective and crazy slim
I copy the files over UNCOMPRESSED, since I have lost files to corruption on recovery.
It is NEVER a good idea to compress files since they already contin data that is compressed using the video codecs and copressing a compressed file is not only risky, it will not save much space at all. You can pick a 2TB for $70-80. Well worth it,
I'm now so paranoid from losses over the years that everything is double backed up. I've had 2 hard drive failures in the past 10 year, 4 failure in the past 20 years...those earlier failures saw a bunh of edits go too of which 20 % remain unlocated.
lol that's the dreamIt would be nice….
Thanks for the reminder they exist…(one day homes will be built with it included, just like hot water and drains)…
Hmmmmm…
Just did a quick call….
Hmmmmm….
Edit
A WD 28TB is over 1000 bucks…
Gonna be a while before I rip all my discs and drop in my edits too….price per TB is about 40% more but I have to say, given the rate that storage is growing and prices falling… might be 3 years…
It would be nice….
Thanks for the reminder they exist…(one day homes will be built with it included, just like hot water and drains)…
No offense but Time Machine is not a good option. I don’t fan edit so my video back up is small, but I have terabytes of music (over 5k albums). Time Machine simply can’t handle it. I’m sure my technique is not the most sophisticated but I clone my storage drive to an external drive and put it in a fireproof safe. I update it every six months or so.Are you a Mac user? Do you use time machine to backup everything?
Sounds familiar... (and sensible)No offense but Time Machine is not a good option. I don’t fan edit so my video back up is small, but I have terabytes of music (over 5k albums). Time Machine simply can’t handle it. I’m sure my technique is not the most sophisticated but I clone my storage drive to an external drive and put it in a fireproof safe. I update it every six months or so.
Lol, I think we may be the two oldest members here so I’m not surprised.Sounds familiar... (and sensible)
I'll see you 80s and raise you one word....Oh, I raise your floppy with the fact that I played PONG on some x86 hardware in 1985-1986 and I saw Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back in the cinema in my country around the same time. My mother worked in the IT center of a big factory and they had a very large room with tapes for storing stuff and perforated cards for running the programs. My first ever home PC was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum clone called HC-91 (Home Computer 91). Floppy disks were a luxury for HC-91, I used to load programs from cassette tape. 1 GB is 1024 MB which translates to 712 3.6 inches floppy disks. My HC-91 could only use 5.25 inches floppy disks. We've come a long way since then.
I had one of those tooI'll see you 80s and raise you one word....
ABACUS