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Most Reliable Solution for Backups and/or Archive

Morsher
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Okay guys. Thank you for your suggestions.

After scrolling through reviews of external HDDs and seeing common situation where is no matter what brand you look at 90% of them die in 2-3 years of active use. I came to the conclusion you either buy a nice expensive external SSD (which is unnecessary for my use case) or don't buy anything at all. So i was like "hmm i don't mind using NAS Drive". Yes it's not comfortable, yes it's a pain in the ass but as far as i'm concerned it's 20x times more reliable than external HDD. Do you agree or you have some suggestions?

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You shouldn't buy an external SSD either.

You should just have two HDDs in raid 1 in your existing PC, and that's it. Linus has a pretty good video on what it means.

 

Honestly though, cloud backup is pretty good and convenient, if you don't feel like the hassle 

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I agree with using a cloud solution, as something like Backblaze really isn't that expensive at $6/mo and you get unlimited backups.

 

If you want to keep some local backups, you can get an external HDD to keep some temporary backups (maybe like a week or two, depending on your needs) and also back yor stuff up to a cloud service for permanent storage.

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For small amounts of data you can look at Blu-ray M-Discs or equivalent.

 

For larger amounts you basically have cloud storage, tape (expensive) or mirrored hard drive arrays.

 

Most of my media is backup on a RAID-10 which itself is backed up to another RAID-10 array.

 

For documents, photos and important stuff I have it backed up to RAID-10 which is backed up to both cloud and blu-ray m-disc (once a year).

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