Storage - Local and Cloud

[sam004]

Hi all -

Just looking for feedback in what everyone does for storage here.
There are many options this day and age:
External USB hard drives are cheap now.
Free cloud storage options.

We all have large physical and digital collection.
The physical collection demands a lot of space we may not have.

I have, at this point, too many 1, 2 TB external hard drives.
And several cloud accounts.

I would like to consolidate and organize what I have.

Any comments or input welcome.

[Lord Reith]

Backup your many 2tb drives to a 10tb drive. Then if you don't want to keep all the 2tb drives, backup the 10tb to another. But always have a backup.

I think cloud storage is silly. Why keep paying to store stuff you own? A one-off payment for a couple of drives is more economical. Also, cloud companies go out of business and/or decide to lock you out of your account. Take for instance the many people who have been locked out of gooogle services because they change their phone number (or lose their phone) and the big G refuses to accept the new phone number without first receiving a text verification from the old number. And even if you're lucky enough to still have your old phone with your old sim card still working, you have to wait three months or more before any verification texts go to the new number. I can just imagine uploading 10tb of stuff to some cloud storage, and then one day in 5 years time they suddenly want me to verify my identity via an email account I haven't used for a decade. Or hold up some other hoop that effectively shuts you out.

[cliftdean74]

100% agreed. I like having local control of my content. This year I’m planning on setting up a NAS drive so I can get the 12 hard drives of material collected over the past 18 all organized in one place for the first time. It doesn’t hurt that I like to organize stuff.

[Lord Reith]

I had hoped a decade ago that we'd have petabyte drives by now. Sadly the amazing expansion of capacity has drastically slowed down. But I love those 5tb portable drives which are amazingly cheap. Really handy.

[sam004]

Great advise. That will be a winter project.
As you illustrated, too many ways to loose your content storing it off line.
And the recurring cost.
Just have a few free accounts for sharing here.

Thanks for the input.

[AllTogetherNow]

Just a thought.

What would be the best format ?

EXfat?

NTFS?

The general rule of thumb is this:

• Internal hard drives should use NTFS.
• External hard drives should use exFAT.

What are U CONNOISSEURs using/suggest?

Regards
ATN

[Kusaywa]

As Lord Reith said, always have a backup. SSD do fail!

[AllTogetherNow]

So no opinions?
U Tech GURoS

Where is Magic Alex when he is needed.


Regards
ATN

[Gringo557]

Hi all -

Just looking for feedback in what everyone does for storage here.
There are many options this day and age:
External USB hard drives are cheap now.
Free cloud storage options.

We all have large physical and digital collection.
The physical collection demands a lot of space we may not have.

I have, at this point, too many 1, 2 TB external hard drives.
And several cloud accounts.

I would like to consolidate and organize what I have.

Any comments or input welcome.

I use two 8TB drives and two 5TB drives and I'm running low on space....

[sam004]

Yeah thanks to you maniacs here.
It's like drinking from a fire hose

This is why , too me, some folks are militant about tagging your FLAC files.
when you have all these titles, it's hard to figure out what some this is after a awhile