Hard Drives / Storage Situations?

[daniel burgio]

Would love a G-Tech thunderbolt drive, but let's be real, £400 is a lot for a 4TB hard drive.. even though it is mega fast.

I love speed, but I wouldn't be able to convince myself that the money is worth it. Especially not when a lot of 3tb hard drives are 150-ish.

 

[Andrew Flint]

I love speed, but I wouldn't be able to convince myself that the money is worth it. Especially not when a lot of 3tb hard drives are 150-ish.

If I needed fast external hard drives I would probably get one, but USB3.0 seems to work fine for video editing and using photoshop/lightroom with my photographs.

 

[ARTFXSTUDIOS]

I have four internal harddrives 2TB of which two are 10.000 RPM (8TB total), the first 10.000 RPM HDD is divided into two partitions, one is for Windows the other partition holds my other software. Then the other 10.000 RPM HDD is holding all my audio samples for music production, and it holds all my music production related projects and files. Then I have another 7200 RPM 2TB HDD for all my video work and another 7200 RPM 2TB HDD for all my design and photography work. I also have another 4 external harddisks of 2TB which I used for storing all my files in the past, two of them are now used to store downloads, anime, movies, and so on and the other two are just for archiving old files if the internal HDDs are full. So that means I have 16TB in total? Damn....

 

[daniel burgio]

If I needed fast external hard drives I would probably get one, but USB3.0 seems to work fine for video editing and using photoshop/lightroom with my photographs.

Lol, I'm still using USB 2.0. My computer is from 2008. I still would much prefer the greater size over the speed. But maybe that's because I'm use to slow speed with this "ancient" computer...

 

[Andrew Flint]

Lol, I'm still using USB 2.0. My computer is from 2008. I still would much prefer the greater size over the speed. But maybe that's because I'm use to slow speed with this "ancient" computer...

haha I use my USB2.0 for archiving.. but it's not fast enough to edit 1080p video from or export my photographs fast enough to, so I use my USB3.0 for that

 

[Tae]

Ha, I was just talking about this yesterday. I don't really need speed unless its fast internet, I NEED THAT. However, I haven't gotten an external hard drive yet and I really need to with all of the photography and videos that I do... I hope to get a "Mybook" or something that connects to the home network.

 

[Catie WahWah]

Just out of interest how many times to do you guys usually back-up different kinds of files? I remember learning the ideal is at least 3 times in 3 different places, but I feel like that's impractical unless it's just the final videos?

 

[Andrew Flint]

Just out of interest how many times to do you guys usually back-up different kinds of files? I remember learning the ideal is at least 3 times in 3 different places, but I feel like that's impractical unless it's just the final videos?

Videos and photographs - 3 times
Youtube video - no backup just the main archived version
Work (documents) - Google Drive and the archived version.

 

[Kristen Is Calm]

I used to store everything I made as well as the footage and the music and all things Youtube in a folder on my laptop but it takes a lot of space so now I just delete everything once I've edited and uploaded!

 

[daniel burgio]

Just out of interest how many times to do you guys usually back-up different kinds of files? I remember learning the ideal is at least 3 times in 3 different places, but I feel like that's impractical unless it's just the final videos?

I never back anything up. Even after losing my MyBook... Just because of memory constraints. I'm trying to revive the MyBook's HDD though. Then I can back things up (if it works...).