Storage Solutions Where to store memorable data?

nRiTeCh

nRiTeCh

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I have tons of captured images and videos from cellphones and digi cams from my dad, brother, sister and my collection.
The size is roughly 300gb.:coldfeet:

Everything is arranged and stored properly on hard drive.
I'm constantly in a worry that I might loose all that if anything happens to my disk.:nailbiting:
We can buy new disks, softwares, games , movies, music etc. all but cant buy those cherished memories ever once lost.:(

So what can be done to preserve these memories forever?

Please dont suggest to write the data on some dvd or blue ray. I dont trust these medias. Have already experimented with it.
 
2 x external hard disks.

Cloud - you may have to pay for it. Alternatively create multiple G+ ids, exclusively for your photos and use the free space.
 
Cloud and G++??? :confused:
Uploading photos will take months and videos cannot be uploaded as they range from 20mb to 400+mbs. :(

Ext hdd was already on my mind but again its still an hdd. It can also go corrupt.

Like we have bank lockers hope we had something for data as well. For some annual fee etc.
 
For starters you can burn some DVDs (at least for the pics) and just stow away. DVDs are cheap when bought in bulk as well.
BluRay is good but I have never used one and don't even have BluRay Burner.
Cloud is good but then it will need to be paid since i don't think any cloud service will give you 300GB free. And yes it will take a lot of time for the upload. If price is reasonable I would also opt for the cloud option.
 
I'm currently using Microsoft's Office 365 subscription. It gives me 1TB cloud storage along with use of MS Office on up to 5 computers. Works out to be around 4k per year. You might want to look at something similar. The value proposition goes down if you don't want to use MS Office.
 
Yes, we all know that HDDs can go bad. That's why my suggestion was to make copies in two different HDDs. Anyway, that's what I personally do.
 
I dont understand but....

how could you trust your important data with some third party like google drive or any other free cloud? one day they will come back to you and say that hackers hacked and stole the data or there was an disruptive update and they lost all your data. you are not signing an SLA and you cannot hold them liable.

second thing is that unless you upload all the data in encrypted zip format, they are going to access it. in that case, after few months you may forget the password for your zip file. (when some thing is free, you are the product)

if data is so very important.. just invest some money and buy some 128 G sd cards and lock them up in a bank locker in another city. buy some extra hdds and mirror raid your data on the pc. do a DR drill every 6 months to ensure the data is consistent and protected.

invest in a home NAS and then use rsync to backup to an different home NAS at your friend's place.

There are levels of data protection depending upon how important the data is to you...

if you need more info.. I can get you in touch with our sales team :p
 
I use two harddrives. One harddrive is for daily use another is for just backup purpose and I dont even keep the second one in my computer. I plug it to computer once a month to replicate the data, then put away in a wooden shelf so as not to get it interfered with any electromagnetic or whatever that can cause any harm to it. been doing this for past four years. And yeah when my main harddrive goes kaput I use the backup as primary and buy a new harddrive to use as backup drive.
 
I think I will opt for another external disk but data will keep growing and I wonder whats gonna happen in future then.
But also what I have observed is, if you keep your data untouched for a very long time some data might get corrupted. :(
Observed it on one of my drives. Some images have gone corrupt and are now unreadable. :banghead:
The disk health is perfect and no bad sectors etc. Just that I never accessed that very particular area for more than a year now.
 
AFAIK data gets stored as 0s and 1s. And these recovery tools will try to recover it when others fail, correct me if wrong. I was able to successfully read data(not all, but some) using few recovery tools from few CDs when normal methods failed
 
The only logical option is cloud. I would trust cloud more than physical drives.
What @indy1811 has suggested is a great option for the price. I would go with that.
 
nRiTeCh said:
Please dont suggest to write the data on some dvd or blue ray. I dont trust these medias. Have already experimented with it.
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You should try these kinds of media but use recovery data as well, using par files (search the board have posted on this a while ago) you can set the redundancy as you like. Write at a slow speed to reduce errors. You should check how well the write went.

Use checksum files for your directories so you can easily find out if the data is intact or not.

You can also use par files for HDD, decide what % of redundancy you want. 33% means you can recover that much if its lost. Store those par files on the drives as well as on seperate mediums.

par files or recovery data along with redundancy is better than just redundancy.

Get a NAS and decide whether you want RAID 1.

Way i look at this is data you want to protect is worth 100x the cost of that volume.
 
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I wasnt able to find anything related to par files here.

Is it some new compression standard?
I wouldn't mind 100% redundancy but need some more exploration on this.
 
OP, you can use Amazon's AWS. They store all your data on tape drive and will use back ups and shit so that your data is always safe. Best part, you can mail them a HDD containing your data and they will do the upload.

This is the best method.

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indy1811 said:
I'm currently using Microsoft's Office 365 subscription. It gives me 1TB cloud storage along with use of MS Office on up to 5 computers. Works out to be around 4k per year. You might want to look at something similar. The value proposition goes down if you don't want to use MS Office.
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I would suggest Dropbox, 99USD/year for 1TB.
 
instead of wasting time and money on cloud and stuff.buy couple of hard drives and make 2-3 backups.sync them up every month or so.if possible store them in different physical locations...I have never heard data getting corrupted from unused drives but still if you are so concerned about it then use them for a couple of hours every 6-8 months..anyway if you are going to sync them every month then they will remain in use.

the probability of all 3 drives failing at the same time is almost negligible.so thats the most safe and simple solution.
 
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