8TB External Drive - 6,790? You bet!

[killerbeez]

 

How low can these external drives go in Thailand? This is the lowest I have seen.

 

[bendejo]

5,100b in US

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1273853-REG/wd_wdbbgb0080hbk_nesn_8tb_my_boo.html

[BritManToo]

I prefer the 4TB for 3,400bht.

Why risk everything on one drive, when you have have two for the same price.

[Greenside]

Seen several (3) of these My Book drives fail and wouldn't trust them, especially for 8Tb of data!

 

Unless the portability is a major consideration, I'd advise a couple of 4Tbs and a NAS box (QNAP are good) and set them up so one is mirroring the other.  That solves the failure risk and backing up to an external off site drive or the cloud would protect from physical issues like fire and theft.  Yes, it's a bit more expensive but hugely safer.

 

Sorry, I know that's slightly off topic, but I have had friends suffer data loss where it wasn't properly planned or backed up and it's a bitch.

[trd]

Seen several (3) of these My Book drives fail and wouldn't trust them, especially for 8Tb of data!
 
Unless the portability is a major consideration, I'd advise a couple of 4Tbs and a NAS box (QNAP are good) and set them up so one is mirroring the other.  That solves the failure risk and backing up to an external off site drive or the cloud would protect from physical issues like fire and theft.  Yes, it's a bit more expensive but hugely safer.
 
Sorry, I know that's slightly off topic, but I have had friends suffer data loss where it wasn't properly planned or backed up and it's a bitch.

One way to avoid that is to buy two drives and put them in a raid configuration so the same data is always being written to both drives. If one drive fails you still have the data on the other drive. Then you simply replace the faulty drive and start all over again. I've never actually done it but I'm thinking about it as drives are so cheap now. Does anyone have experience with doing this?

[geoffbezoz]

This Seems  A repeat of thread a few weeks back for the same spec'd product

[Greenside]

25 minutes ago, trd said:

1 hour ago, Greenside said:

Seen several (3) of these My Book drives fail and wouldn't trust them, especially for 8Tb of data!
 
Unless the portability is a major consideration, I'd advise a couple of 4Tbs and a NAS box (QNAP are good) and set them up so one is mirroring the other.  That solves the failure risk and backing up to an external off site drive or the cloud would protect from physical issues like fire and theft.  Yes, it's a bit more expensive but hugely safer.
 
Sorry, I know that's slightly off topic, but I have had friends suffer data loss where it wasn't properly planned or backed up and it's a bitch.

One way to avoid that is to buy two drives and put them in a raid configuration so the same data is always being written to both drives. If one drive fails you still have the data on the other drive. Then you simply replace the faulty drive and start all over again. I've never actually done it but I'm thinking about it as drives are so cheap now. Does anyone have experience with doing this?

Err, isn't that exactly what I suggested in the post you quoted? ????

 

I have years of experience doing just that and never lost any data.  QNAP and Synology NAS boxes with NAS rated drives and backing up every week or two to a bare external HD in a docking station.  The NAS is scanned daily for malware and the backup drive lives in a different building.  The maximum data risk is theft or fire damage to the NAS in which case I'd lose a few days of data which, compared to whatever just happened to the NAS, would be trivial.

 

As long as you decide at the installation stage, you can easily encrypt the data to whatever level you feel is necessary - be aware though that choosing to do that later when your drives are getting full can be a royal PITA.  By the way, I favour the QNAP NAS over Synology as it's much friendlier to use.

Edited May 29, 2019 by Greenside
an afterthought

[killerbeez]

50 minutes ago, geoffbezoz said:

This Seems  A repeat of thread a few weeks back for the same spec'd product

It's exactly the same product... and now it's cheaper. Worth posting about, yes?

[BritManToo]

51 minutes ago, Greenside said:

I have years of experience doing just that and never lost any data.  QNAP and Synology NAS boxes with NAS rated drives and backing up every week or two to a bare external HD in a docking station.  The NAS is scanned daily for malware and the backup drive lives in a different building.  The maximum data risk is theft or fire damage to the NAS in which case I'd lose a few days of data which, compared to whatever just happened to the NAS, would be trivial.

Nobody in their right mind bothers with this sort of nonsense.

[trd]

Err, isn't that exactly what I suggested in the post you quoted? [emoji846]
 
I have years of experience doing just that and never lost any data.  QNAP and Synology NAS boxes with NAS rated drives and backing up every week or two to a bare external HD in a docking station.  The NAS is scanned daily for malware and the backup drive lives in a different building.  The maximum data risk is theft or fire damage to the NAS in which case I'd lose a few days of data which, compared to whatever just happened to the NAS, would be trivial.
 
As long as you decide at the installation stage, you can easily encrypt the data to whatever level you feel is necessary - be aware though that choosing to do that later when your drives are getting full can be a royal PITA.  By the way, I favour the QNAP NAS over Synology as it's much friendlier to use.

Yeah okay I don't have any secret government files on my computer. I'm just a guy who doesn't want to lose his movies so two drives mirroring in the same location as you say is quite adequate. Important documents are stored on two different cloud providers. I'm just not sure what interface you need so the two drives can talk to each other. I guess I'll just Google it.

[Greenside]

If you have room in your computer for a couple of hard drives, Windows 10 or OSX can apparently both handle disk mirroring.  Setting it up using the operating system looks a bit fiddly but there are a lot of tutorials online.  A QNAP TS-002 NAS with 2 good quality 4Tb drives looks to be in the region of 15,000 baht - on the plus side it just plugs into a USB 3.0 port and looks after itself once it's set up.

 

At the most basic level you could just add an extra drive to your computer and use a simple program to sync the files at the end of every day.  Mirroring really comes into its own if you spend a lot of hours editing photos or playing around with animation etc.