r/datastorage

So my current setup is very simple. For short-term data backups, I have the following:

- Three 2TB portable drives (1 SSD, 2 HDD) solely dedicated to macOS Time Machine backups in case my machine ever fails (it has suddenly failed once before, having these backups saved me).

- Three 2TB portable drives (1 SSD, 2 HDD) which holds a lot of old data that I want to keep long term or “forever”(photos, videos, music, files, TV shows). I keep all three drives in sync using rsync and Carbon Copy Cloner on macOS.

For long-term data backups with cold storage, I am currently in the process of digitizing a bunch of old photos and videos, and storing them on a couple BD-R XL M-Disc’s. I’m also going to transfer some of my photos / videos from my aforementioned drives onto these backup discs.

Currently, I’m not following the 3-2-1 rule as well as I should. My plan is to make multiple burner BD-R M-Disc’s, and store one offsite somehow TBD. But as far as my HDDs & SSDs with data, none of them are stored offsite or in the cloud or anything.

Eventually, I’d love to build a NAS with a Home server running Jellyfin and stuff, and mess around with RAID and such. But currently that seems unattainable due to hardware and storage prices. A lot of what I’m doing now is based on what I already have access to or got second hand. My biggest expenses so far have been a Blu-Ray optical drive and the BD-R XL M-Discs.

Given all that, does anyone have any feedback based on what I’m currently doing? Does anything jump out to you that may be worth looking into?

If you have suggestions on how to expand this to slowly move toward my desired end state, please let me know. Thanks!

I’m looking to offload my photos and my notes from my IPhone onto a a flash drive but after doing some research I see that the one I wanted to get actually suck and I was looking for better recommendations. I was looking to get the Sandisk iXpand flash drive but saw that it’s confusing and kind of obsolete. I see some other options but I don’t see much on them. Any recommendations?

Hey everyone, I have taken a hard disk from my hp laptop and it's very old for around 10 years. It was fine last year but it's showing little problem and whenever I plugged into the laptop for data transfer it took longer time to read the data . Sometimes it's showing the " not responding" problem. Two weeks ago l, I formatted it and completely erased everything from the hard disk. I thought now I can use it without any issues and when I transfer the data, the data gets corrupted.

Basically what are the ways to fix my hard diks?

I try to fit as much of it in the title as I could. I'm looking for a stick that does all of that. I don't want the ones that have the micro SD sticking out of the side or bottom. I would like one that would be completely enclosed or at the very least have a cover.

Hello everyone. I need a way to store the recordings of my classes, and all together they are like half TB of storage. Now being a student, I need a reasonable storage to use where I can create folders to get everything sorted. What do I use?

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Hi, I'm looking for a real good external ssd for daily use/backups. Which external ssd have you guys had good experiences with? I mainly want something fast, reliable, and durable enough to carry around without worrying too much about it. Preferably 2tb, but I’m open to any advice.

Now correct me if I’m wrong i heard SSDs and even things like sd cards store data by trapping electrons, and if you don’t use it for too long those electrons will eventually escape and corrupt your data unless you plug it in every so often so they can restore themselves

Hard drive has magnets apparently which holds the data for much longer but are more prone to fail when under use because of the moving parts

I'm just watching a video of people fawning over the nostalgic hardware of the floppy disk, and I'm wondering if I can go down to my local microcenter and get a personal magnetic tape backup storage and fun messing around of putting a meme folder on a magnetic tape for sub-200 bucks?

Environment: Windows Server with single, standalone LTO drive

Purpose: Bare metal recovery from tape

Optional Feature: Backup to Internet storage, like AWS

Thank you in advance!

UPDATE: Although, CDW told me Backup Exec was no longer sold and the Veritas site now goes to Cohesity, Zealousideal_Fly8402, informed me Cognizant now owns it and still selling it. Unfortunately, I can't find any purchase information on their website so I'm waiting to hear back from sales.