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Techies, what's your personal data storage setup (photos, music, movies, docs) and what do you recommend everyone should be using? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Most people realize too late that they didn't have backups of their data or don't realize they can easily setup their own media servers at home. What do you use and suggest? Everything from beginner tech knowledge to advance. TIA

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is no one size fits all for how someone should do their backups, it really depends on what you have and how much. What do I have? Over 100TB on a redundant unrais server with it backed up off-site. That's probably overkill though. Most people would just benefit from an external hard drive with automated backups set up.

If you want to know it's safe, the go to solution is 3-2-1. 3 total copies of your data across 2 different types of data storage, with one of them off site. That's the only way to truly know your data is safe.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are there certain brands of external hard drives you recommend for local backup?

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The WD elements drives are pretty rock solid. The drives themselves are WD reds inside, which are very reliable. The only iffy thing is if the control board (the device that converts USB to the internal drive) can fail, but that's true for any external. It's my go-to backup solution.

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

theyre the drives i buy and shuck. Love me WD reds.