Time to sort out an integrated storage system, as cloud is not really practical for me for video due to being in a remote regional area and being limited to mobile data plans I am also starting to record audio and video.

I have rebuilt the video clips' library back up to about 120gb now, but it's really slowing the rest of the PC down. Since then, I placed my audio collection on cloud so that is safe. All of a sudden, I had my USB flash start, bringing up the drive needs formatting error. I had my music (16gb) on a USB flash drive and music video clips (150gb) on hard disk. This has literally saved my skin as a lot of my PCs have very old hard drives, and I lost about 8 drives to bad sectors in the last 2 years alone (all very old drives, so no regrets there). Actually it can automate everything, but I choose to keep some decisions on approval basis.

I use SyncBack Free version, which allows me to autmoate most of the process. Backups are fully manual in my case, literally having to flip a power switch on the backup server, logging in remotely, and initiating the backup process. Consumer level RAID 1 is for the most part useless unless you get read speed aggregation, which most store-bought enclosures do not have.įor my entire collection (music, movies, documents, and miscellaneous files), I have it stored on three USB external drives totaling 32TB, served 24x7 by two Raspberry Pi4s, with a complete offline backup server that has the exact same data capacity. Which means that you have to backup regularly, but you are protected in the case of full drive failure.

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