How do you store large files?

[NoLoMo]

I just recently purchased a 5TB external hard drive to backup my files from my 1 TB laptop. Now I'm sure that the backup and restore file plus file history are larger than the drive just backing up the files on its own, but it has taken up more than half of the available storage. My question to you all is, what's the best manner to backup large files, such as raw footage and photos.

[SnowyMus]

16 minutes ago, NoLoMo said:

I just recently purchased a 5TB external hard drive to backup my files from my 1 TB laptop. Now I'm sure that the backup and restore file plus file history are larger than the drive just backing up the files on its own, but it has taken up more than half of the available storage. My question to you all is, what's the best manner to backup large files, such as raw footage and photos.

I'd personally get multiple large hard drives depending on how important the data was to me. While storing it in multiple locations is the best way to ensure that things won't be lost, the effort and cost goes up with the amount of redundancy. Having at least one backup is good enough most of the time.

[MoonlightSylv]

26 minutes ago, NoLoMo said:

I just recently purchased a 5TB external hard drive to backup my files from my 1 TB laptop. Now I'm sure that the backup and restore file plus file history are larger than the drive just backing up the files on its own, but it has taken up more than half of the available storage. My question to you all is, what's the best manner to backup large files, such as raw footage and photos.

Drag and dropping periodically would be the absolute best.

[itsmee]

Cloud storage like google drive 5TB a month option or something like that ??

[NoLoMo]

56 minutes ago, Kavawuvi said:

I'd personally get multiple large hard drives depending on how important the data was to me. While storing it in multiple locations is the best way to ensure that things won't be lost, the effort and cost goes up with the amount of redundancy. Having at least one backup is good enough most of the time.

Mmm so what I'm understanding investing in a NAS is the way to go right?

 

[Simon771]

DiskStation DS1815+

 

That's your solution. 144TB of space.

I don't think you will run out of that space soon  

[NoLoMo]

48 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

DiskStation DS1815+

 

That's your solution. 144TB of space.

I don't think you will run out of that space soon  

hope so, you'd be surprised how fast i go through hard drive storage

[SnowyMus]

1 hour ago, NoLoMo said:

Mmm so what I'm understanding investing in a NAS is the way to go right?

Using a NAS is a great idea, plus you can have your NAS do whatever you want with your data (stream media, for instance), but how you choose store your data doesn't really matter as long as you have copies of the file stored in different locations (and as long as these locations are reliable and/or secure, if you want). This can be in an external hard drive, a NAS, RAID 1, the cloud, someone else's house, etc.

[Captain_WD]

4 hours ago, NoLoMo said:

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Hi there

 

A NAS is indeed a great backup option. If you don't really need an advanced NAS but rather a simple network backup location you could take a look at the WD My Cloud options for personal Cloud storage. 

Also, instead of performing copy/paste functions you could consider a backup application that can do either scheduled backups of certain folders or a continuous backup of certain locations on your laptop. An example would be WD SmartWare.

 

Feel free to ask if there are any questions! 

 

Captain_WD.

[Simon771]

4 hours ago, NoLoMo said:

hope so, you'd be surprised how fast i go through hard drive storage

144TB for personal use?

That's some special kind of crazy lol

[Over9000Dude]

You could stick to only the 5tb hdd and delete old backups and only have the newest ones.