Storage Solutions Want reliable storage for family photos
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Seagate and WD both serving me good. Yet will recommend WD either internal or external depending on your choice.
I need an external Hardrive which should be able to connect to MacBook pro, Lenovo laptop (Linux mint) , HP (windows) and MiTv 4a Android TV.
Apart from high write and read speeds, is there any other benefit to prefer SSD over HDD. Which is more reliable in the long run?? HDD or SSD??
As this harddrive will contain precious family photos, I want a reliable storage which will work for long time.
This is something which cannot be guaranteed using just one external USB disk.
The best you can do is get a Seagate USB drive which comes with 3 years of data recovery services. I have not used the service so you may need to read up on it.
Use mechanical HDDs and DVD as backup. I heard SSD loses its data if it's kept turned off for more than a year. If the family pics are really precious you need backups on 3 different storage mediums.
@Danielman Please don't hijack threads and inject your own unrelated questions, make a new thread.
@mods please split off posts unrelated to the OP.
@mods please split off posts unrelated to the OP.
I have 3 copies, 1 one nas with raid 5, 1 on a portable SSD, one on cloud. Based on how critical it is you can define your budget and have multiple copies.
Physical archival media like CD, DVD or Blu-ray are more reliable and long lasting than HDD/SSD.
You can always use 7-zip with aes-256 bit encryption to compress & password lock the files before uploading to cloud.
One deep scratch by mistake and it's worse than paperweight. Physical media always will have higher chance of failure than a cloud environment with some big organization which have replications across regions.
The probability of a hdd/sdd failure vs the probability of a deep scratch on a disc by mistake?
OP here is looking for long term storage options for family photos,
so the frequency of accessing particular set of photos vs the cost of upkeep for a cloud storage service also matters, not to mention the privacy/data leak issues.
I would sacrifice privacy for accessibility and avoid the risk of 1 fatal drop/scratch and losing everything.
Not to mention the media you suggested is deprecated/obsolete.
If privacy is a concern, it'll be much better to store on multiple flash drives/SD cards instead, a media which is still in use and less prone to shock/scratch damage.
Also encrypting the backup is a good option suggested above for cloud.
About the cost of cloud, google and onedrive have a cumulative of 45GB of free storage? If that's not enough for family photos/videos then you can create multiple accounts. Cost is not a concern here.
Although I am very carefull but I have dropped hdds and scratched dvds at times...i have also stupidly installed nvme under heavy padding rendering the SSD unusable...so yea that is one of the reason I have decided to go cloud...
I have lost data on above including accidentally killing a raid 5, hdds cables accidentally pulled while system was booting and various such mishaps...over the course of last 20 years
I have lost about a cpl of years worth of media to one of these mishaps.
I have lost data on above including accidentally killing a raid 5, hdds cables accidentally pulled while system was booting and various such mishaps...over the course of last 20 years
I have lost about a cpl of years worth of media to one of these mishaps.
You can use cryptomator to encrypt files easily and upload to onedrive or Google
Most of the media that needs to be stored are old marriage and function videos. Only < 5gb are photos.
Videos are of 720 x 576 , 25fps and 8046kbps quality. I uploaded couple of them to my YouTube private channel, but they got compressed a lot. So, I will be upscaling them to 2k or 4k and then upload them.
Created a new family Google account and uploaded all photos into Google photos.
In the upcoming sale, will buy a 1 TB HDD so that I can easily access these files from my laptop and TV. Need your suggestions for brand and model.
Videos are of 720 x 576 , 25fps and 8046kbps quality. I uploaded couple of them to my YouTube private channel, but they got compressed a lot. So, I will be upscaling them to 2k or 4k and then upload them.
Created a new family Google account and uploaded all photos into Google photos.
In the upcoming sale, will buy a 1 TB HDD so that I can easily access these files from my laptop and TV. Need your suggestions for brand and model.