I have 5 TB hard disk in which 1-2 TB is essential data as it contains specific jewellery images and designs and the making videos and all and the material contents and everything. I want to know where I can save that online asap before I loose them due to any problem in my system and then download it once I have reformatted my entire system. I don't have any external hard disc. I want to use this online storage for long term so that I can use it for entire life time. I have heard some cloud thing online. I don't know whether it would be useful or not and where can i save and which cloud charges what?
Storage Solutions Where should I save my desktop data?
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Get some external hard drive or NAS solution with redundancy if the data is important enough and backup to it. 1-2 TB of storage is not gonna be cheap on the cloud.[DOUBLEPOST=1522078699][/DOUBLEPOST]If you want to go for cloud storage, Amazon drive is one of the options.
https://www.amazon.com/b/?_encoding=UTF8&node=15547130011&ref_=cd_lg_sn_in
1 TB storage costs $60 per year which translates to about ~3900/ year
This is the one of the cheapest options that I found.
Google drive costs Rs 650/month for 1 TB which translates to 7800/year
https://www.google.com/drive/pricing/
https://www.amazon.com/b/?_encoding=UTF8&node=15547130011&ref_=cd_lg_sn_in
1 TB storage costs $60 per year which translates to about ~3900/ year
This is the one of the cheapest options that I found.
Google drive costs Rs 650/month for 1 TB which translates to 7800/year
https://www.google.com/drive/pricing/
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How much is your existing data? Is the data on a USB HDD or internal
Either way - stick to 3-2-1 backups for safety. 3 copies of your data in 2 different devices with 1 offsite.
I would suggest to get a NAS (Synology) which will do sync with Google Drive or Dropbox or Box or OneDrive, whichever is cheap. I would suggest Google rather than Amazon because usually you get high peering speeds with Google compared to others. However, if cost is an issue - look at cold storage if you need to keep backups and not retrieve them - the cost will be even lower - Amazon Glacier. However, retrieval is expensive.
If the NAS is expensive or you dont have that kind of bandwidth for uploading, a USB HDD (4TB and above) is a good alternative. But use only as a backup drive - do not mix stuff.
Either way - stick to 3-2-1 backups for safety. 3 copies of your data in 2 different devices with 1 offsite.
I would suggest to get a NAS (Synology) which will do sync with Google Drive or Dropbox or Box or OneDrive, whichever is cheap. I would suggest Google rather than Amazon because usually you get high peering speeds with Google compared to others. However, if cost is an issue - look at cold storage if you need to keep backups and not retrieve them - the cost will be even lower - Amazon Glacier. However, retrieval is expensive.
If the NAS is expensive or you dont have that kind of bandwidth for uploading, a USB HDD (4TB and above) is a good alternative. But use only as a backup drive - do not mix stuff.
Any of you tried this before? https://www.skyvault360.com/
Was reading an article about data backup and came across this. Seems reasonable and unlimited (I guess the max would be your internal storage), so it seems
like it will work like a mirror of your desktop data as against Drive where you can backup whatever you like.
Was reading an article about data backup and came across this. Seems reasonable and unlimited (I guess the max would be your internal storage), so it seems
like it will work like a mirror of your desktop data as against Drive where you can backup whatever you like.
Looks like an encrypted/compressed disk backup solution. So as you said, it won't give you the freedom of storing and retrieving files as you wish. Its all or nothing. Also, there many complaints online about bad customer service and not letting you unsubscribe easily.
I backup to my WD Mycloud 4TB, and have also set a backup and sync from the NAS to a portable 4TB WD Mypassport which is a USB3 drive. It plugs into the USB3 port of the WD NAS.
This way, you can have 1 main backup to the NAS from your PC/Network devices, and deploy/sync to multiple backup drives for saving in different locations. Data can be encrypted too.
RW speeds over a gigabit LAN are 100MBPS easily for large files and varies on smaller ones. From the NAS to USB3 hard disk, it's about 60-80MBPS, depending on files.
This way, you can have 1 main backup to the NAS from your PC/Network devices, and deploy/sync to multiple backup drives for saving in different locations. Data can be encrypted too.
RW speeds over a gigabit LAN are 100MBPS easily for large files and varies on smaller ones. From the NAS to USB3 hard disk, it's about 60-80MBPS, depending on files.
For regular use and non super specialised requirements I think Synology is the best. Been contemplating getting one myself for a while but have just been lazy in getting down to it. Some of their models can also do Plex pretty recently
Even got a quote from one of the Mumbai based distributors directly.
In case many are interested maybe we should put up a GO.
Even got a quote from one of the Mumbai based distributors directly.
In case many are interested maybe we should put up a GO.