External hard drives

[old doc] How to store a lot of data

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5 TB for 100 USD - Seagate⁠

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RAID system

i think that’s for automatic backup:

https://www.amazon.com/12TB-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBFBE0120JBK-NESN/dp/B074R34DD3/⁠

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cost 50% more than non-RAID hard drive; in exchange: backs up automatically + less devices to manage (because goes up to 36 TB)

Towers

5x more expensive per TB, but gives you 240 TB well organized (expandable to 1.2PB) (30k USD):

https://www.lumaforge.com/jellyfish/builder/?model=t&onboardingPlan=0⁠

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Archive

If you record 24 hours per day and 365 days per year, this will generate 38.6 TB of content. If you film 4 hours per day, it will be 6.4 TB. You can get a

6 TB external hard drive⁠

for about 160 CAD.

A common suggestion for back-up is to have a back-up in a different location and a back-up in a different format. Most of my files are backed up on 3 external hard drives and online, but given videos is more expensive, I’ll probably only do 2 external hard drives and online.

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