Cloud storage vs Physical Hardisk

[klim668]

Physical harddisk backup on NAS.

And if you are as adventurous as me, you can even set up a 2nd NAS to backup the first NAS in another location, thus having multiple copies of backup.

Add another HDD to your NAS and mirror it. If one drive goes down, you still have the other one. No need to buy another NAS. Isn't that how ppl configure their NAS?

 

[jumpthepig]

Hello EDMW!!

I have been struggling to get my Pc to read my hdd which holds around 400gb of photos / data

went to a shop for diagnosis and he said my hdd is corrupted . Will need data extraction / recovery as the computer can only see it as a usb , but non readable or writable anymore .

What I’m concerned now is , I still have 1tb of travels photos on my computer which I initially wanted to put into the hdd . But seems like I now have to find alternatives:

1) buy google drive storage and expand my google photo space to 2tb

2) buy another hdd but this time , maybe every 3 years have to buy another hdd in anticipation of failure

Which is the better choice and why ? I’m really so sad now

I used Apple ICloud+ w 2TB for many years… It is very good, no worry hdd failure Or corruption.

 

[5adisticD3vil]

do both

remember, you need backup for the backup of the backup's backup.

if you backup is those store riao, long long time then take out to beo abit, use HDD
if your backup is need use daily, use SSD

 

[Lao_Tiko]

Immich for self-hosted. Keep your private data off the cloud. But you become your own sysadmin. Find any old corporate desktops with i7-8700T and at least 16gb ram

 

[addict951]

Icloud for my ios photos
Legacy photos are in my hdd. I dont feel like hosting into cloud as they are of v poor quality… i also dont see the photos as often

I used Apple ICloud+ w 2TB for many years… It is very good, no worry hdd failure Or corruption.

TQs for contributing to my AAPL!
Pls subscribe to google drive too

 

[chopra]

TQs for contributing to my AAPL!
Pls subscribe to google drive too

U r welcum

 

[win_man]

physical drive better la. And backup the backup. physical also easier to dispose off.

 

[eyz]

me using huawei china cloud 18 rmb 3+sgd, wife using india icloud 219 rupees 3sgd

lose phone abroad, buy same phone, call for esim replacement, load into cloud and restore. business as usual.

 

[born2fly]

I suggest having a half-cloud, half-local external SSD drive

 

[Igene]

Mixture of cloud and NAS.
Get a lower tier cloud for most use items. Backup less frequent use items to NAS.
If hiam leceh, then go full cloud.

BTW, anyone knows if any NAS can backup WhatsApp like how we configure to backup to G Drive/iCloud?

 

[hotamp]

you guys back up your bank statements, cdp etc in your physical HDD or you upload all to cloud no scare admin go and peek a boo at your data if they are in the cloud?

 

[nuscape]

put your money in the bank or under the pillow? same analogy.

 

[harbinger255]

Wait..... it took SIX MONTHS for someone to finally reply this thread????

 

[FlyGuardX]

https://www.stacksocial.com/sales/filejump-2tb-cloud-storage-lifetime-subscription

 

[pwongkk]

Nowadays NAS expensive or not? Since now got the global storage crisis

You can try research the prices for Synology or Qnap.

If adventurous enough, can build your own using TrusNAS or owncloud.

 

[pwongkk]

buy SSD instead of HDD, the fail rate i think better

Ssd need to power it up occasionally to refresh the cells, cannot keep in drawer and forget about it.

 

[pwongkk]

Add another HDD to your NAS and mirror it. If one drive goes down, you still have the other one. No need to buy another NAS. Isn't that how ppl configure their NAS?

My NAS is running in Raid-1 with 2 different brands of harddisk. Same capacity.

Reason of getting another NAS and putting in another location is more on backup redundancy and safer backup.

Have you considered
1. What if the NAS hardware fails?
2. What if your neighbour's pmd catch fire or ur house caight fire that destroys your NAS?

My bro and I keep our 2nd backup NAS at each other's house. Every night the NAS will do a sync. Recently we set up a 3rd NAS and put at our parent's house, keeping another set of data as backup.

 

[pwongkk]

you guys back up your bank statements, cdp etc in your physical HDD or you upload all to cloud no scare admin go and peek a boo at your data if they are in the cloud?

Never trust the cloud. Who knows they snoop on your data for AI training.

Or worst, the could provider got hit with randomware.

Question is you don't know your data resides in which data center, is it in any rouge countries ... etc.

I still find it safer to self host my own cloud and data.

With NAS, I no longer need to bring a thumb drive or ext storage out. Need anything, just vpn back home to access/download.

 

[Insatiable_creat]

Better backup soon. My HDD crashed few years back and end up spending $2k+ to retrieve my files. Fug up dishonest company some more...

 

[Dracky]

Store the photos in duplicate hard disks. Don't trust cloud storage as governments and hackers can access your data.