Backup drive recomendations?

[AOD_Anvil]

Hi friends,

I'd like to get a back-up drive for all of my files and pictures. I was storing all my files on a western digital external hdd 1tb which failed, thankfully i was able to get the data off of it after about 8 months of failed attempts. Now I want to get a new external drive, this time an SSD that is fast, small and light. i have a budget of about $200. Any recommendations on a good drive?

Thanks much.

[AOD_ReloadedKamel]

Cloud backups are really nice for pictures. Like Google drive, iCloud, Onedrive.

If that's not an option I suggest getting two Hard drives and set them up for mirroring.
This way if one of them fail you'll have an exact copy. Hard drives are pretty affordable compared to SSDs. You can probably get two barracudas for $100 or less

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[AOD_Anvil]

Cloud backups are really nice for pictures. Like Google drive, iCloud, Onedrive.

If that's not an option I suggest getting two Hard drives and set them up for mirroring.
This way if one of them fail you'll have an exact copy. Hard drives are pretty affordable compared to SSDs. You can probably get two barracudas for $100 or less

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Thank you sir!

[AOD_BritishBob]

You really can't go wrong with buying either a USB drive or internal drive. SSD or HDD. I'd recommend a HDD. Then using dropbox/onedrive/google drive to then back that up.

I'd personally go with a HHD, performance isn't what you want from a home backup drive. You really want size and cost. IF it fails it should be cheap enough to replace and redownload from the cloud.

I personally use a paid dropbox and copy any files I want to backup over there. So I have one copy on my PC RAID array on in dropbox.


These days you can't really go wrong with any of the Big Named brands for drives.

[WMD]

My recommendation... 2 bay synology nas with 2x 4tb drives. sub 500$ and you have 4tb of reliable storage space, plus the ability to use the nas as a server for various things.

[McShaxx]

Hey man check this out
https://www.amazon.com/G-Technology-...1973291&sr=8-8

You should check out RAID for hard drives. Easy way to backup your data

[AOD_Weakness]

My recommendation... 2 bay synology nas with 2x 4tb drives. sub 500$ and you have 4tb of reliable storage space, plus the ability to use the nas as a server for various things.

I agree with this depending on use. It's a bit out of the budget but you have some protection against a drive failure. The nas is about $190 new and since your original drive was only 1TB you might be fine with 1 or 2 TB drives which run about $40-50 a piece.

If you want to go a step further and have an old computer laying around look into unRaid. It would give you the flexibility of expanding your backup drive size as time goes on with the protection of parity. Unraid is (I think) $60 for the basic package which allows up to 6 drives.

[JimmieRustles]

The 3-2-1 rule is the guiding principle of data backup and disaster recovery. The rule states that in order to have a reliable, redundant backup and an effective disaster recovery solution, you must have: three copies of your data, on two forms of media, with one copy located offsite

[fo0man]

I agree with this depending on use. It's a bit out of the budget but you have some protection against a drive failure. The nas is about $190 new and since your original drive was only 1TB you might be fine with 1 or 2 TB drives which run about $40-50 a piece.

If you want to go a step further and have an old computer laying around look into unRaid. It would give you the flexibility of expanding your backup drive size as time goes on with the protection of parity. Unraid is (I think) $60 for the basic package which allows up to 6 drives.

There's also a free 30 day trial. I love unRAID and have a 36tb NAS I run with 2 14tb parity drives. Took a bit to get setup with some automation stuff I wanted to do. But haven't had any real issues, great platform for home storage

[ocdocdocd]

If you've only got 1TB or less of data I'd recommend using a cloud backup solution instead like Google Drive/Photos. No shortage of options out there and 1TB is a pretty standard offering. Using those services will ensure your data doesn't get lost due to drive failure or a disaster (fire/earthquake/storm/flooding) and as a bonus you'll be able to access them anywhere on any device.

The calculus changes if you've got several TB+ of data or if you have a lot of large files you access frequently. In that case a local solution may make more sense, though I'd still suggest putting the stuff you really care about on an off-site back-up solution.