So guys, I am looking at some storage solutions for my new PC.
Right now I currently have a 1tb SSD that is gonna be my main boot drive / main gaming and reaction image drive.
And I'm looking to get a 5tb WD black for general storage.
My question is simple. What is the best cost effective solution for backups?
Is it worth it to get two 5tb drives and raid 1 them? Is it worth it to get a smaller drive and somehow back shit up in that? Or an external backup drive?
How do you guys handle your data backup, I do a lot of projects so backup would be important, I've never done backup before and I've been lucky not to have drive failure yet, this time I want to be more prepared if it does happen.
The answer to that is almost always yes. You're not just guarding against drive failure, but also against literal emergencies - fires, etc.
Justin Anderson
Use cloud if you "seriously" have to back up something. Otherwise just get as big an SSD as you can.
Jaxson Baker
The question is how much do you care?
Are you a defense contractor backing things onto tapes everyday and storing them offsite?
Do you just buy some Seagate external drives, drag and drop and call it a day?
You have to decide what you want to spend, how much work you want to do, and how much you really value your data.
Personally, I have a Samba server with HGST enterprise drives in RAID 1. This is a middle of the road solution, and pretty secure. I also have it automated, so I don't have to think about it.
People burn data to blue-ray discs, which can be good if you're mainly backing up documents, which is often the most important things we have anyways.
Logan Jones
Well I have a 1tb SSD but 1tb doesn't go very far these days and I don't feel like spending a few thousand dollars for more space.
5tb WD blacks are pretty cheap right now, seems like a good solution to store my movies, music, and video projects in.
B-but I have all my projects and pictures :(
Josiah Johnson
>Right now I currently have a 1tb SSD that is gonna be my main boot drive / main gaming Ok. >and reaction image drive. Why? Just get wd caviar blue or an hgst ultrastar. Wd black is loud and costs more than blue for no real reason. Back up things you can't afford to lose, not things you can download again if need be.
Nathan Anderson
the most cost effective solution is the 3TB "refurb" HGST drives Newegg sells. I know most of the autists on here think I'm crazy but for 65 bucks you get quite possibly the best enterprise class drive on the market.
WD black 5TB is $220.
HGST 3TB is $65 refurb, $120 new
Recently I bought a 3 TB Seagate made November 2016 in Thailand and will be doing a long term comparison with the used HGST I bought from Newegg. The Seagate was $100 from Best Buy and the read/writes are better than the HGST but not by much.
Lastly, I really don't have any critical data. I have a few years worth of photo's/RAW from my photography days but all that shit is in so many places I don't worry about it. Ten years ago I would have told you guys I had 'critical data' that absolutely had to be "backed up in 3-4 different physical places".
The older I get the less fucks I give.
/blog post
tl;dr: RAID some cheap $65 HGST 3TB used drives.
Connor Campbell
Oh and the HGST had some thing like 16,000 hours and only 15 power cycles which is pretty awesome compared to some desktop drive that has 1000 power cycles and less hours.
Jeremiah Flores
I got my music on 4 4tb Seagate external HDDs, how bad did I fuck up?
Josiah Brooks
edit: the ultrastar's are 250 new, the 120 new was me looking at the deskstar variant.
you'll be fine.
William Reyes
The 1 and even number seagate drives are fine. It was their batch of 3tb drives in 2012-2013 that were utter shit with ~47% failure rates. If you bought it within the last year or two you didn't fuck up, you just bought the cheapest option.
Jaxson Adams
all the bad 3TB seagates are looooong since recycled and the issues were addressed.
however if you look at the sheer amount of those drives backblaze surveyed it's impressive how much of the market seagate controlled.
seagate has tried to move on by renaming their consumer drives THREE times now. from constellation, to just 'desktop', to now the rebrand of barracuda, skyhawk, and ironwolf.
in short, the seagate is bad meme is long gone.
WD is simply overpriced, unless you're settling for a 5400 rip'em drive, which you shouldn't be doing.
Jaxson Foster
Is there any reason not to just stack 3tb wd blues? I know little to nothing about the various tiers of HDDs but as far as storage per dollar goes they seem like the best bang for your buck.
Adrian Morales
blue's are shit tier 5400 rpm drives.
>go to newegg >select drive size >click box by 7200 rpm >notice no WD Blueshits
7200 RPM has been a standard for spinning drives since forever now, there's no excuse for still buying a 5400 rpm drive. this is where seagate has a hold over WD as you can get a 7200 rpm drive for less than a WD 5400 rpm drive.
Isaiah Ramirez
Fuck I'm retarded Thanks
Justin Roberts
RAID IS NOT A BACKUP.
For programming projects I use git & gitlab.
For everything else, incremental backups on 2 separate drives which are rotated between offsite and my machine.
3-2-1 rule and you're good.
Logan Campbell
They make 7.2k drives also yes, you are
Caleb Davis
no shit? how new are you to hard drives?
WD makes you pay more money to get a 7200 rpm drive and it's bullshit.
fuck why are you even on Sup Forums this is Sup Forums tier shit.
Wyatt Thompson
Not him but don't their 1tb HDDs come in 7.2k as the norm? And they're like $40
still shitty, but a relatively ok price
Brandon Cruz
you have to do your homework as neither seagate or wd print their rpm on the boxes anymore, which is total and complete horse shit.
