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Great to have you back. I knew that you had it bad from your update video but you really did get bent over. Great video, I knew some of the stuff you talked about but learnt a bit here and there. Certainly a good video for those unaware of these types of technology. I find and I don't know what you think about this, that the storage advancedment progression is quite slow. What I mean by this is the storage capacity and it's ability to process, plus the price for this storage. It has gone down a bit over the last few years but I remember SSD cost several hundred just for a TB.
Thanks Kyle :) I had to cut a lot from the video - it's just too boring. Better in a blog I think! With covid etc... the price of hard drives is ridiculous, I'm hoping to see the price drop at some point but the world seems determined to lurch from one crisis to the next with no breaks right now! For the moment, I am really enjoying the 10Gbe network and NAS, it's working well but inevitably I'll have to upgrade at some point. It seems sensible (and I don't know why this never occurred to me earlier) to tie in my IT infrastructure in with my camera upgrades. That way the computer etc.. meets the requirements of the camera and I'm good for 3-4 years with my current Canon I'd guess.
@@WillGoodlet "the world seems determined to lurch from one crisis to the next with no breaks right now" You can say that again, see what I did there. "inevitably I'll have to upgrade at some point" It is always the way. Look forward to seeing more from you whenever that may be. Take care, cheers.
One thing I have learned over the years after various disk drive failures - the best media storage is CD! It is portable, so you cab grab it in an emergency and it doesn’t need electricity and external cd readers are cheaper than hard drives…. Not only is there incompatibility between Microsoft and Apple, there is also the problem of 32 bit to 64 bit software incompatibility, software version incompatibility/migration and even suppliers going bankrupt or leaving the market or being bought out. I hate NAS (they are proprietary and keep changing the operating system) and only use it in conjunction with external disk drives. I simple use 2tb rugged drives by Silicon Power for backup and have loads of them. Keep them unplugged until you use them and store them where they wont be subject to flooding. Not much you can do about a house fire. Always use a UPS and surge protector for your NAS and computer and any permanent disc drives.
Thanks Ray good to hear from you! I hope it's clear from the video (but I did chop about 20 mintues out of it so maybe not!) that I had a professional solar installation feeding -> whole house UPS -> Lithium battery -> surge protectors on sockets -> individual 2000VA ups per pc + Lightning mast and surge arrestors on the street connection. All of it just blew up, like a bomb hitting. There was a massive explosion of noise and smoke. I think CD and multiple hard drives could be workable for photography. But when you throw video into the mix, as I am learning now, storage is always on the mind. It's almost overwhelming to control it. The real pro's seem to use LTO tape but that is crazy expensive for someone like me.
Ps have you discovered neofinder or cdwinder for cataloguing your CD's? Very handy offline explorer of media and other files. I even considered it as a main catalogue application to replace Lightroom.
Thanks for a great video. I have watched a lot of your videos and this is a slightly different one but very informative. I am sad you had to pay the schools fees but happy to learn at your expense.
An excellent review Will, of the whole process and detailed comments as to why some of the processes and choices are important. I have been following your Lightening strike nightmare and is good to see that you getting to the end. Time to get out with Basil again!! Regards Pat
Thanks for watching and commenting Pat. Yep things are much better now! I will be out and about in Basil in the next one (still back in October in vlog time though).
I really enjoy your videos and I'm so glad to see that things are getting better for you! Do you use a UPS/battery backup (like a Cyberpower or APC device for your computer and electronics)? I don’t have the severe power issues that you have in South Africa, but they are a tremendous help when the power goes out or there are surges. It’s nice to keep working for 35-45 minutes when everything else loses power. The batteries do have to be replaced every few years, but the peace of mind is tremendous. I’ve been using a Cyberpower CP1500C since 2013 and replaced the batteries in 2020. It powers my desktop PC, cable modem, router, monitor and a secondary router; so quite a mix of items with an estimated 40 minute battery run time. You could also use a secondary unit for the security system. Best of luck and thanks for all your work and effort to share your videos and work! P.S. I am not affiliated with any companies mentioned, just what I use and have experience with/spent my money on.
Hi Marion, thanks so much! Yes, we have a Solar system (same as the system destroyed in the strike) with full house UPS and inverter feeding into various surge protection devices and UPS per pc we can run everything in the house for 8hours at night and off the sun in the day :) ! It's unbearable without auxiliary power. We have a lightning mast too - but the theory is that the strike hit the street light outside and not our mast. If it had hit the mast we would have been fine.
Thanks Rob, I haven’t tried it but thought about it - wasn’t 100% clear to me that it would be unlimited even with 3 users. What is the versioning like? Do they support block level changes and true backup?
@@WillGoodlet I'm actually not sure about versioning, block level, etc. I just upload craploads of data so I have an off-site backup. It's not perfect, and it requires a bit of a workaround when using it the way I do, and it can be slow to start up if it has not been used in a while, but once it's up and running I can upload about 1TB per day (on a gigabit line) and I have over 100TB stored, so it's much cheaper (and more reliable) than buying 100TB of hard drives. I store all my raw video files, and now I can send any of those files to clients even if I have crappy internet.
@@MovingPicturesAfrica yes that sounds good. The speed is so important. I just cancelled crash plan - projected to finish just one backup set of mine (4tb batch of files) in 8 months!!
hi will. sorry to hear that. sure u got the better solutions for your local conditions, and lots of wise and experienced people answered below. ide go for the simpler approach. does all we shoot need saving? up to yesterday (...), i had a big files camera. files got stacked, though i actually get say 1:250 really good shots- something worth saving and publish, maybe contest or selling. most of my pictures are nice, but not worth everlasting saving. so the actual backup size really needed is smaller. that can go with a cloud. the other best option i know is, if an external drive is disconnected and stored in a drawer- its reletevly safe. ssd is kind of water proof. a weekly, or monthly, buckup for that should work. and some cd copies for the best stuff, if u want put in a fireproof home safe. might melt though, if the house burns. i also have the habit of a protective switch for power jumps or waves. wont do much if a lightning hit, i suspect. for that, i belive u need a special main fuse buildup. and a lightning metal bar. twice in my life i had lost computer backups. eventually i found out it was not that important. sure, i do miss the translation for the poem 'if' by Kipling i worked months on: but, i do not let the backup dictate my life, nor take too much time, mony, and effort. its important, sure - but if lost, i let go. so i would suggest 'the reasonable effort approach', only for the important stuff. hope i helped, and wish u well in those conditions.
My day job is handling backup systems. It was interesting to hear about an in-the-wild example of the type of stuff I work on for a living. A few thoughts: RAID can be hardware OR software-based. I've got a Linux system at home, that is Software RAID 10. Software RAID gets around the whole "the hardware is discontinued so Now my data is lost" issue. along the same lines is ZFS. This is actually a filesystem designed from the ground up to be RAIDed. It's universal and more streamlined than regular software RAID; and like other software RAID, As long as you have a config file, working drives, and a linux/BSD machine w/ ZFS capability, you're good to go. this is what I see in most business/enterprises. I'm a BIG proponent of having at least 3 copies of all your data: one online, one offline, and one offsite. That's the trifecta of tranquility.
Thanks for the insights, yep aware of software raid. One of the big problems for me was having literally no means of connecting to or checking any of the backups due to damaged computers. Compounded by issue of having to replace the pc with one that could edit canon R5 files - the intel 12th gen and Mac M1 had not quite appeared. This is kind of what I mean by mentioning all the other stuff around the straight data situation. You just have no idea where you are until you can start to recover all these other systems and resources alongside. I’m pretty happy with the new setup - using nas raid as central repository with all the benefits of error checking etc… and making backups from that. I work off the nas - this is going very well. No need for proxy files, working drives etc… and NLE software means that I am pretty much only ever reading from it unless I am ingesting new footage. In addition to the Nas copy there are Three backups of data to a series of single disks. 2 backups offsite (one is in cloud)
@@WillGoodlet Working in IT as well (programming) and taking photos on the site I can only really recommend that you look into what FancyHat404 is saying about ZFS. I myself is using the software FreeNAS/TrueNAS which is using ZFS as filesystem. This filesystem is the the best answer the industry has to offer when it comes to safety of your files. Because as FancyHat404 is saying the file system ZFS used in FreeNAS/TueNAS is hardware independent. So you can move the raid disk array to another computer/server load the config file and your are good to go. The NAS solution FreeNAS/TrueNAS is actually a really nice product and nice user friendly graphical user interface. This doesn't cover that the lightning can wipe all electronic in the box so it is useless but will make it easier to recover from hardware failures. The NAS solution from brands like Synology and Qnap is much more hardware dependent and in some cases you need and exactly identical hardware component for getting it to work again. A NAS box doesn't take away that you minimum has to have a 3-2-1 backup strategy as you say in your video - one copy has to be offline. Further more the ZFS filesystem makes it much easier to recover from randsomeware since it is not file based but block-storage oriented and has snapshots build in as default so rolling back to last known good copy can take seconds and you are back in business again. But please do not put your NAS on the internet and be accessable directly it will only invite problems in one way or another. Take a look and see if FreeNAS/TrueNAS or ZFS it could help you as it has help me to maintain huge amount of photos/videos and data in general. Thanks for your video and sharing this important topic and sharing your experience when mother nature hit hard.
You have really a "thing" with lightning! The second video on this channel from "four years ago" was when you told us you hadn't picked up a camera in 5 months, as you recovered from your electrocution. Apparently lightning does not strike twice in the same place b/c this time it wasn't you that got electrocuted but your media. That's a trade-off I'd make any day.
Excellent video.... I use a 4 bay drobo where 1 drive can fail and I can rebuild the drive plus everything is also backed-up/long term stored on blu-ray disc/DVDs/CDs and 3rd copy of all my zoo photography work off site on a hard drive that I replace every 2 years with a new copy. I have been using the 2 different media option for the last 8 years just in case one medium fails I can access another. For me I only save my final edits not the original files and the edits etc. I have approx 10TB of total files (99.5% stills; .5% video). Also just in case my next machine doesn't have a blu-ray burner built in I bought 2 external units for the future.........
I think not saving originals is a hard choice to make. When you have new software that is able to improve them significantly (Denoise software etc...) and presumably more in future. It's hard to let them go! I am mainly struggling with original video, deciding how to trim it and what to keep. It's hard to know what I can discard. Certainly not any of the animal footage but a good deal of me talking to a camera can probably go but then, you never know when you might go back and relook at a project or try to do a longer story looking back at the past etc...A lot of the time I will have good clips that don't 'fit' the current vlog but are still interesting moments. Not decided what to do with it all yet. My only advice is to leave the Drobo unplugged when you are not using it! That was my big problem, main copy and backup, and back-up copy all plugged in at the same time.
Really good discussion and information Will. Wow, that big 10GBe adapter you showed - the M1 Mac Mini has a built-in 10GBe option for extra $150AUD, and today's release of the new Mac Studio are by default 10GBe.
Hi Mick, thanks :) I considered the Mac mini The minis + 10GBe don't get imported here, that's often the case for many things with SA. Also larger memory and hard drive versions were not imported. Having never used the M1 I was also a little worried that it might not cut it for my R5 video files - so I overspecced my MacBook in retrospect. I really like the look of the Studio - wow - if they had been around I would almost certainly have got one instead. Although the portability of the MacBook is nice too.
@@WillGoodlet G'day Will, sounds like you're getting the blunt end of the stick over there with options from Apple. I was going to say after your comments about power condition and outages there a laptop would be a great option for the battery - not sure if you went for an M1 Macbook of some flavour but a good option for your would be the M1 Macbook Max with 32GB and minimum storage option - then connect a bus-powered storage device like the Samsung T7 SSD and you have continuous power and storage connectivity during power problems, and it's portable too. The external editing monitor would be out of course, but you could continue working on the laptop screen, if not editing at least culling, tagging, cataloging etc. What did you go with? The M1s are fantastic, Intel is in trouble but I bet they're working on their own RISC processors right now to catch up. BTW - my M1 mini 16/256 draws max 30 watts when I really load it up, discounting the USB-C hub and some other connected devices it is fantastic for power consumption and never seems to slow down for Lightroom editing - a wonderful "appliance". The Samsung T5 and T7 are both more than good enough to edit from, although I haven't started video editing just yet. T7 is faster than T5 but it gets really hot while editing, the T5 doesn't.
@@mickmckean7378 I use an M1 Max with 32gb. Editing off a synology ds1621+ it is excellent. The power is fine coming from a solar installation. We are at 9hours a day without power right now with warning that we could go to 14hrs because of the war. So backup power is vital. You can imagine what 14 hours a day without power does to our economy. The mismanagement of water and power is really getting bad.
@@WillGoodlet that's a good rig, I bet it made you happy with the performance improvement. Sad to hear SA is having those troubles, hope everyone can band together, conserve and last it out and the government improved infrastructure. One of those Tesla-style batteries for your house would be a good investment from the sound of it (if they sell them to SA that is). Good luck, hope the wildlife photography is great and a nice distraction from the world's worries.
Great work on this video. I use NTFS for all my backup devices. Even though macs read NTFS, I use a product called NTFS for mac from paragon software for the volume of devices. Have you ever looked into Amazon Cloud services or AWS. I know that my backup plan is OK for me but I don't have the volume that you have. I really enjoyed this video.
Hi David, thanks for watching. It was a long one to make and I cut a lot of the details - perhaps better in a blog post. Paragon is a life saver. I use extFS to the same thing with ext4 drives. I have been looking at Amazon - but the expense of storage / recovery seems a bit arcane to work out. Additionally, when I price it Backblaze C2 is cheaper and Synology C2 cheaper still - but both of those are too expensive for me. I went with iDrive, which I somehow got for $3.78 for the entire first year and $79 thereafter. Only 10TB but the most important stuff can go on there. It's so much faster than Crashplan which I just cancelled today (8 months it was saying to finish my upload!) iDrive did it in less than 2 weeks.
Another way is to buy a second NAS, populate it and take it to safety deposit box; then you switch it with the one that is at your house every (you put days here). Also I use a external hard drive as a time machine device attached to my M1 mac.
I deliberately avoided the R5 due to file size. Went down the Sony route and have slowly been building up the Glass and use a third party Cannon Lut for my image. File sizes are a lot smaller and I use Raid and Hard drive for backup.
@@WillGoodlet I make videos for British Armed Forces overseas. So R5 video file size was just way to big and to be thoughtful no one coukd handle them before the introduction of the Apple M1. So currently have 1×FX6 2x FX3 and an A1 for specialist photography as and when required. So one Raid and an additional SSD drive which I send to BFPO head office every week. As living in the Philippines means Brown outs, power surges and piss poor Internet. This is before you add in the Earthquakes Typhoons and Volcanoes. So the challenge is real but by sending the SSD it is catalogued and backed up by the MOD.
@@parasinthephilippines Last time I was in the Philippines mount Pinatubo had just erupted (1991) - was incredible going through the ash. I'll never forget it! I wish I had a camera back then. It was almost impossible to edit R5 / R6 video before the Mac. Insane also that RAW was easier than H265. So much better now I am using an M1. Take care out there!
I have a degree in IT and studied backup (BU), advised, set up, etc. for many years and I was able to recover a few times. Still have the majority of what matters but it is also down to luck. As you can never cover all angles/risks and especially for the majority of us that don't do photography as a living it is exceedingly difficult/costly to justify 1K a year for cloud storage, or >1K every 5 years for RAID or a NAS, etc. iDrive is USD 80 a year (for the first year) for 10 Tera and then goes to 150, Adobe for the creative cloud is USD 60 month.... very quickly you have bills and you haven't taken a single photo. :-) So the issue is to decide what risks you can afford to manage, mitigate, etc. E.g. If my whole house burns down my digital photos maybe the least of my worry. There are so many other more valuable things that I will never be able to get back. And we don't do anything about all those other things. All of what Will says is true, there are however, a couple of things I would highlight/advise that he didn't pick upon and could potentially save $1000s and hrs of hassle: 1) get an uninterrupted power supply (UPS) it's is like a small battery combined with a surge protector. Plug the UPS to the mains and then your computer and HD/SDDs, NAS... to the UPS. It is a plug and play/plug and forget system. With a UPS you have peace of mind from thunders, and dodgy grid spikes, etc. Your machines will work better anyway even under standard operating procedures. UPS is relatively cheap, for a moderately sized system. I have my UPS for more than a decade. 2) whatever solution one opts for (i.e. risks decide to manage) -> automate your BU procedures. Automating is key, because even the best and most expensive systems if you don't follow it means nothing. And it is very difficult to eliminate human error, etc. Even the crappiest BU system if it is automated it will have more chances of recovery than a better system that depends on you doing something at particular moments in time. I have no perfect solution (not that any exists). Learn to distinguish the differences in the circumstances; e.g. out in the field (cause you need a separate BU/file management when in protracted assignment somewhere away from home) vs back home/business as usual. Volume of data and for different data, these also make a lot of difference. E.g. all my videos from VHS days I store digital copies at my father's house. Of course they need to be played otherwise they degrade. Even DVDs degrade (everything degrades its called entropy :-) And technological systems change, suddenly your computer cannot read what you assumed it was always going to be able to read or doesn't recognise the external device, etc. You have to spend hrs troubleshooting... That's my two cents.
There's at least $20 here :) Thanks for the info and insight Dimitris! I cut 20 minutes out of the video - I can't tell you how many times I fell asleep making this video! I've go surge protectors and UPS on everything these days. The power is also conditioned through the solar inverter and battery system - but ALL of that just blew up. Now, the drill is that when we hear thunder, which is almost twice a day now, we shut down the NAS and NVR (and disconnect them from everything) disconnect everything else in the house, including network cables, switch off the mains and disconnect the solar inverter. I'm pretty sure if we get hit again we will still lose a lot of stuff but I'll be dammed if it is my NAS! I can't justify all the costs, but I got iDrive for $3.78 for the first year and $79 thereafter, worth a try. It's so much faster than CrashPlan. But my main backup is going to have to be to HDD. You are right on hardware too - it never ends. I was reading Peter Krogh's DAM book and getting very depressed about having to run VM's of my software to keep all my old stuff going (in the future). We are going to have to constantly migrate this stuff to new systems and media. One of the things that really irritated me moving to Mac was the lack of support for 32bit software - maybe it just caught me by surprise, I thought I had covered all the software bases before making my decision... My perfectly good Spyder 4 pro colour calibration doesn't work. How will we ever deal with global warming if we continually build obsolescence into products.
Adobe USD60? Do you need that software? I ditched it. Using DaVinci Resolve for video, which I like a LOT better than premiere pro. I am not using Adobe illustrator right now, but that and photoshop are the only tools I would really really miss if I stopped using Adobe.
@@WillGoodlet tnx - so just to clarify you had UPS before and the thunder or whatever fried both the UPS and the computer you had plugged to the UPS? I can accept that the UPS may fry but what is after it should survive.
@@WillGoodlet Davinci requires a lot of expensive hardware (I and many mortals don't have :-). And I was referring to the whole suite Lr and Indesign etc. Aren't you using Lr? How do you do your file /archive management?
@@dimitristsagdis7340 I moved over to imatch on PC but back to Photo supreme on Mac (I used it in the past) this handles other file types, audio, pdf, etc much better than LR
Is rooftop solar a reasonable option for you? RAID is built for reliability, not speed. If your raid is simply writing data to two disks, that takes longer. Probably not twice as long, but longer. RAID protects against hardware failure, hardware failure is the least likely way you will lose data. Last week, I accidentally deleted a virtual machine. I don't have anything important in virtual machines, fortunately. RAID would not have helped me. A backup to another drive would have. Those cheap "my cloud" and similar devices run Linux. My DVD recorder runs FreeBSD,. Those would be the major options for RAID devices, at least at the lower end. Mind you, I'd not be surprised if storage sourced from IBM runs Linux. For me, duplication and off-site storage is probably the best option. On the east coast, people need to be careful. There are often huge storms, and they're feeling the effects of climate change. 600 mm+ of rain in 24 hours in hilly Brisbane isn't going to hang around. Around south eastern Queensland and north eastern NSW, the rivers have overflowed and are have been burying or carrying away houses. In the 70s I worked for a government department and pur computer in Brisbane was in the basement. Came the flood, and the computer was sitting in escaped sewage. Caused a right stink. Hopefully, expensive computers now live in high buildings and on the tops of high mountains.
Reply We have solar - blown up with the ups and lithium battery backup for 8hours runtime - and then replaced. This is essential in SA life is unbearable otherwise. We also have a generator. Power is therefore conditioned on entry to the house but additionally each plug has a surge protector and electric equipment has individual ups In lightning storms - which have been the worst I can remember this year - we shutdown all power and disconnect everything and wait them out. We have a lightning mast too. Luckily we are halfway up a hillside and the river can’t get us. But thatched roof so lightning and fire are constantly on the mind. I use my Nas to read from not write to. With 6 bays it is achieving adequate read speed for live 4K editing without proxy. It’s the main copy of data - so it supplies error corrected source files to all the backups. And I edit video and image files held on it. Naturally editing is NLE and non-destructive so nothing is written back to the file. This works extremely well. Transfer speeds are adequate are 600MB per second both ways. This can be increased by adding a little more RAM and a couple of cache drives but not necessary right now. So far the system is excellent and is 50TB right now and expandable to 170TB which I hope will do me for a good while :) Using a 4 bay DAS arrayed as single backup destinations (no spanning) - to run backups daily. Rotated weekly off site. Additionally I have a cloud backup running daily but this lags after a trip due to slower upload speed for new recorded footage. Using laptop now - so it also is somewhat lightning resistant and easy to disconnect from power and keep working on non-editing tasks. With your risk of flooding offsite is going to be crucial! My issue is mainly theft and power risks - I lose some of the benefits of nas due to constant fear of power spikes. And also lose some sleep over risk of theft especially when I am not at home. But it’s insured. And copied offsite best I can do
@@WillGoodlet What could be done about it. Our power here is pretty reliable, but we don't have a lot of rough weather. Large parts of the Eastern States have interesting summers. I expect you heard about the fires in 2019. Those were extinguished by the floods that followed. The floods were almost under control and Covid-19 arrived. Covid-19 is somewhat under control and now more floods. The floods can be serious, they wash houses away.
You realy tought this trough Will, there is a lot of stuff to think about here. I hope that I will never experience the amount of trouble you had to face after that lightning strike. I recently had some back up trouble myself. My 4tb nas has 2 hdd in it and one had a failure. So I ordered a new hdd but unfortunatly the second hdd crashed before i installed the new one leaving me with nothing... lucky for me I backup on seperate external ssd but it got me thinking... why do i even have a nas if shit like this can happen? So frustrating... I hope you sorted everything out now and can look to the future again. How is the covid situation doing in sa? Grt guido
Hi Guido, oh man that's tough on the HDD. I've also been worried about only having 1 disk redundancy on my unit too. I am rebuilding a new drive now and with all the power outages it's making me a bit nervous... Luckily, in my case the NAS gave me good warning one of the drives was unhealthy. I've also got backups to HDD, like you. And a full backup online now. You are the first person I've heard about who had a failure on a rebuild. Terrible luck, I'm sorry. Everyone is ignoring covid over here, life is mostly back to normal. Although my wife thinks she may have it, going for a test tomorrow. Hope you and the family are well otherwise!
@Will Goodlet yes i was realy unlucky with that. After some research I discovered that the hdd in my nas where not suitable for a nas. Western digital told me that these drives were never allowed in a nas. So I contacted amazon about this but they just gave me the finger... so now I bought 2 seagate ironwolf hdd specialy made for nas syatems. Hopefully tese wil last longer dan 2 years and 3 months. But it does show how important all these multiple backups are. Now that I'm making videos myself I'm running trough storage space twice as fast so I Need to rethink my selection methods. Ow that is not so nice hopefully she wil be recovering soon. You have been trough enough I would say. My whole family had corona halfway trough januari. My son probably brought it home from the daycare so we all got infected. But luckely we didn't get realy sick. Just a couple of days of fever and a cold and then it was over for all of us. Thank god for that because like you we have been trough enough also 😉
Yes those Ironwolfs should be much better than standard drives and I think some Ironwolf (maybe Ironwolf pro) are offered with data recovery services too. My seagate Ironwolf have been good so far. My failed drive was a Toshiba NAS drive. 3 years old. Yeah, storage is a huge problem with video - you've got to come up with a strategy on what to keep and what to discard. Don't know if you are using a Mac but you can trim clips with Quicktime and keep the same quality (from my experience) that has been really useful to me when I have 2 minutes of video of some animal with only 15 seconds of something happening. I can trim the rest and save the space. Takes a lot of time to do this though. I wasn't able to find a way to do that with a PC.
@Will Goodlet yes I shure hope dose ironwolfs are worth the investment. I decided to delete all my videos footage after I processed the video en just keep the end result that goes on UA-cam. I also noticed that I have to watch out with the cache that davinci resolve produces. Omg that takes a lot of space! I'm shooting so much videos at the moment I just can't keep up with posting them haha. I've got 8 ready at the moment so I scheduled them all on UA-cam for the next 5 weeks. So now I have some time to relax and solve some backup issues and work on my website for a while 🤣
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Thanks for the info mate. please upload some more vlogs, your old ones are certified classics.
Thanks Alfred, the next one will be a vlog back in Kruger.
Great insight and information on backing up ones files.Thank you
Thanks Sean :)
Great to have you back. I knew that you had it bad from your update video but you really did get bent over. Great video, I knew some of the stuff you talked about but learnt a bit here and there. Certainly a good video for those unaware of these types of technology. I find and I don't know what you think about this, that the storage advancedment progression is quite slow. What I mean by this is the storage capacity and it's ability to process, plus the price for this storage. It has gone down a bit over the last few years but I remember SSD cost several hundred just for a TB.
Thanks Kyle :) I had to cut a lot from the video - it's just too boring. Better in a blog I think!
With covid etc... the price of hard drives is ridiculous, I'm hoping to see the price drop at some point but the world seems determined to lurch from one crisis to the next with no breaks right now!
For the moment, I am really enjoying the 10Gbe network and NAS, it's working well but inevitably I'll have to upgrade at some point. It seems sensible (and I don't know why this never occurred to me earlier) to tie in my IT infrastructure in with my camera upgrades. That way the computer etc.. meets the requirements of the camera and I'm good for 3-4 years with my current Canon I'd guess.
@@WillGoodlet "the world seems determined to lurch from one crisis to the next with no breaks right now" You can say that again, see what I did there.
"inevitably I'll have to upgrade at some point" It is always the way.
Look forward to seeing more from you whenever that may be. Take care, cheers.
Glad I still unplug my NAS every time I've used it. Only use for backup though.
One thing I have learned over the years after various disk drive failures - the best media storage is CD! It is portable, so you cab grab it in an emergency and it doesn’t need electricity and external cd readers are cheaper than hard drives….
Not only is there incompatibility between Microsoft and Apple, there is also the problem of 32 bit to 64 bit software incompatibility, software version incompatibility/migration and even suppliers going bankrupt or leaving the market or being bought out.
I hate NAS (they are proprietary and keep changing the operating system) and only use it in conjunction with external disk drives. I simple use 2tb rugged drives by Silicon Power for backup and have loads of them. Keep them unplugged until you use them and store them where they wont be subject to flooding. Not much you can do about a house fire.
Always use a UPS and surge protector for your NAS and computer and any permanent disc drives.
Thanks Ray good to hear from you!
I hope it's clear from the video (but I did chop about 20 mintues out of it so maybe not!) that I had a professional solar installation feeding -> whole house UPS -> Lithium battery -> surge protectors on sockets -> individual 2000VA ups per pc + Lightning mast and surge arrestors on the street connection. All of it just blew up, like a bomb hitting. There was a massive explosion of noise and smoke.
I think CD and multiple hard drives could be workable for photography. But when you throw video into the mix, as I am learning now, storage is always on the mind. It's almost overwhelming to control it. The real pro's seem to use LTO tape but that is crazy expensive for someone like me.
Ps have you discovered neofinder or cdwinder for cataloguing your CD's? Very handy offline explorer of media and other files. I even considered it as a main catalogue application to replace Lightroom.
@@WillGoodlet Hi Will. I will look into them… Thanks
Once again, thanks Will for an absolute brilĺiant video...you are a great Legend...👍
Thanks for a great video. I have watched a lot of your videos and this is a slightly different one but very informative. I am sad you had to pay the schools fees but happy to learn at your expense.
Haha thanks Grant :) Not the most exciting video in the world but a useful topic for reference.
Superb vid buddy, answered a lot of questions. Top stuff 😉👍👌
Cheers JP :)
An excellent review Will, of the whole process and detailed comments as to why some of the processes and choices are important.
I have been following your Lightening strike nightmare and is good to see that you getting to the end.
Time to get out with Basil again!!
Regards Pat
Thanks for watching and commenting Pat. Yep things are much better now! I will be out and about in Basil in the next one (still back in October in vlog time though).
I really enjoy your videos and I'm so glad to see that things are getting better for you! Do you use a UPS/battery backup (like a Cyberpower or APC device for your computer and electronics)? I don’t have the severe power issues that you have in South Africa, but they are a tremendous help when the power goes out or there are surges. It’s nice to keep working for 35-45 minutes when everything else loses power. The batteries do have to be replaced every few years, but the peace of mind is tremendous. I’ve been using a Cyberpower CP1500C since 2013 and replaced the batteries in 2020. It powers my desktop PC, cable modem, router, monitor and a secondary router; so quite a mix of items with an estimated 40 minute battery run time. You could also use a secondary unit for the security system. Best of luck and thanks for all your work and effort to share your videos and work! P.S. I am not affiliated with any companies mentioned, just what I use and have experience with/spent my money on.
Hi Marion, thanks so much!
Yes, we have a Solar system (same as the system destroyed in the strike) with full house UPS and inverter feeding into various surge protection devices and UPS per pc we can run everything in the house for 8hours at night and off the sun in the day :) ! It's unbearable without auxiliary power. We have a lightning mast too - but the theory is that the strike hit the street light outside and not our mast. If it had hit the mast we would have been fine.
Great overview Will. Thanks. You didn't mention Dropbox. Their unlimited plan with 3 users is quite reasonably priced.
Thanks Rob, I haven’t tried it but thought about it - wasn’t 100% clear to me that it would be unlimited even with 3 users. What is the versioning like? Do they support block level changes and true backup?
There’s also a sync.com that could be good in the same sort of way. Good privacy control I believe not being USA like Dropbox
@@WillGoodlet I'm actually not sure about versioning, block level, etc. I just upload craploads of data so I have an off-site backup. It's not perfect, and it requires a bit of a workaround when using it the way I do, and it can be slow to start up if it has not been used in a while, but once it's up and running I can upload about 1TB per day (on a gigabit line) and I have over 100TB stored, so it's much cheaper (and more reliable) than buying 100TB of hard drives. I store all my raw video files, and now I can send any of those files to clients even if I have crappy internet.
You've clearly given this a lot of thought and done the research. I guess as a result of what sounds like a real disaster.
@@MovingPicturesAfrica yes that sounds good. The speed is so important. I just cancelled crash plan - projected to finish just one backup set of mine (4tb batch of files) in 8 months!!
hi will. sorry to hear that. sure u got the better solutions for your local conditions, and lots of wise and experienced people answered below.
ide go for the simpler approach. does all we shoot need saving?
up to yesterday (...), i had a big files camera. files got stacked, though i actually get say 1:250 really good shots- something worth saving and publish, maybe contest or selling. most of my pictures are nice, but not worth everlasting saving. so the actual backup size really needed is smaller. that can go with a cloud.
the other best option i know is, if an external drive is disconnected and stored in a drawer- its reletevly safe. ssd is kind of water proof. a weekly, or monthly, buckup for that should work. and some cd copies for the best stuff, if u want put in a fireproof home safe. might melt though, if the house burns.
i also have the habit of a protective switch for power jumps or waves. wont do much if a lightning hit, i suspect. for that, i belive u need a special main fuse buildup. and a lightning metal bar.
twice in my life i had lost computer backups. eventually i found out it was not that important. sure, i do miss the translation for the poem 'if' by Kipling i worked months on: but, i do not let the backup dictate my life, nor take too much time, mony, and effort. its important, sure - but if lost, i let go. so i would suggest 'the reasonable effort approach', only for the important stuff.
hope i helped, and wish u well in those conditions.
My day job is handling backup systems. It was interesting to hear about an in-the-wild example of the type of stuff I work on for a living. A few thoughts: RAID can be hardware OR software-based. I've got a Linux system at home, that is Software RAID 10. Software RAID gets around the whole "the hardware is discontinued so Now my data is lost" issue. along the same lines is ZFS. This is actually a filesystem designed from the ground up to be RAIDed. It's universal and more streamlined than regular software RAID; and like other software RAID, As long as you have a config file, working drives, and a linux/BSD machine w/ ZFS capability, you're good to go. this is what I see in most business/enterprises. I'm a BIG proponent of having at least 3 copies of all your data: one online, one offline, and one offsite. That's the trifecta of tranquility.
Thanks for the insights, yep aware of software raid. One of the big problems for me was having literally no means of connecting to or checking any of the backups due to damaged computers.
Compounded by issue of having to replace the pc with one that could edit canon R5 files - the intel 12th gen and Mac M1 had not quite appeared.
This is kind of what I mean by mentioning all the other stuff around the straight data situation. You just have no idea where you are until you can start to recover all these other systems and resources alongside.
I’m pretty happy with the new setup - using nas raid as central repository with all the benefits of error checking etc… and making backups from that.
I work off the nas - this is going very well.
No need for proxy files, working drives etc… and NLE software means that I am pretty much only ever reading from it unless I am ingesting new footage. In addition to the Nas copy there are
Three backups of data to a series of single disks. 2 backups offsite (one is in cloud)
@@WillGoodlet Working in IT as well (programming) and taking photos on the site I can only really recommend that you look into what FancyHat404 is saying about ZFS. I myself is using the software FreeNAS/TrueNAS which is using ZFS as filesystem. This filesystem is the the best answer the industry has to offer when it comes to safety of your files. Because as FancyHat404 is saying the file system ZFS used in FreeNAS/TueNAS is hardware independent. So you can move the raid disk array to another computer/server load the config file and your are good to go. The NAS solution FreeNAS/TrueNAS is actually a really nice product and nice user friendly graphical user interface. This doesn't cover that the lightning can wipe all electronic in the box so it is useless but will make it easier to recover from hardware failures. The NAS solution from brands like Synology and Qnap is much more hardware dependent and in some cases you need and exactly identical hardware component for getting it to work again. A NAS box doesn't take away that you minimum has to have a 3-2-1 backup strategy as you say in your video - one copy has to be offline. Further more the ZFS filesystem makes it much easier to recover from randsomeware since it is not file based but block-storage oriented and has snapshots build in as default so rolling back to last known good copy can take seconds and you are back in business again. But please do not put your NAS on the internet and be accessable directly it will only invite problems in one way or another. Take a look and see if FreeNAS/TrueNAS or ZFS it could help you as it has help me to maintain huge amount of photos/videos and data in general. Thanks for your video and sharing this important topic and sharing your experience when mother nature hit hard.
You have really a "thing" with lightning! The second video on this channel from "four years ago" was when you told us you hadn't picked up a camera in 5 months, as you recovered from your electrocution. Apparently lightning does not strike twice in the same place b/c this time it wasn't you that got electrocuted but your media. That's a trade-off I'd make any day.
Luckily it wasn’t lightning the first time! But it was bad, it snapped the muscles in my upper arm and damaged the nerves in my spine.
Excellent video.... I use a 4 bay drobo where 1 drive can fail and I can rebuild the drive plus everything is also backed-up/long term stored on blu-ray disc/DVDs/CDs and 3rd copy of all my zoo photography work off site on a hard drive that I replace every 2 years with a new copy. I have been using the 2 different media option for the last 8 years just in case one medium fails I can access another. For me I only save my final edits not the original files and the edits etc. I have approx 10TB of total files (99.5% stills; .5% video). Also just in case my next machine doesn't have a blu-ray burner built in I bought 2 external units for the future.........
I think not saving originals is a hard choice to make. When you have new software that is able to improve them significantly (Denoise software etc...) and presumably more in future. It's hard to let them go!
I am mainly struggling with original video, deciding how to trim it and what to keep. It's hard to know what I can discard. Certainly not any of the animal footage but a good deal of me talking to a camera can probably go but then, you never know when you might go back and relook at a project or try to do a longer story looking back at the past etc...A lot of the time I will have good clips that don't 'fit' the current vlog but are still interesting moments. Not decided what to do with it all yet.
My only advice is to leave the Drobo unplugged when you are not using it! That was my big problem, main copy and backup, and back-up copy all plugged in at the same time.
Really good discussion and information Will. Wow, that big 10GBe adapter you showed - the M1 Mac Mini has a built-in 10GBe option for extra $150AUD, and today's release of the new Mac Studio are by default 10GBe.
Hi Mick, thanks :) I considered the Mac mini
The minis + 10GBe don't get imported here, that's often the case for many things with SA. Also larger memory and hard drive versions were not imported.
Having never used the M1 I was also a little worried that it might not cut it for my R5 video files - so I overspecced my MacBook in retrospect.
I really like the look of the Studio - wow - if they had been around I would almost certainly have got one instead. Although the portability of the MacBook is nice too.
@@WillGoodlet G'day Will, sounds like you're getting the blunt end of the stick over there with options from Apple. I was going to say after your comments about power condition and outages there a laptop would be a great option for the battery - not sure if you went for an M1 Macbook of some flavour but a good option for your would be the M1 Macbook Max with 32GB and minimum storage option - then connect a bus-powered storage device like the Samsung T7 SSD and you have continuous power and storage connectivity during power problems, and it's portable too. The external editing monitor would be out of course, but you could continue working on the laptop screen, if not editing at least culling, tagging, cataloging etc.
What did you go with? The M1s are fantastic, Intel is in trouble but I bet they're working on their own RISC processors right now to catch up. BTW - my M1 mini 16/256 draws max 30 watts when I really load it up, discounting the USB-C hub and some other connected devices it is fantastic for power consumption and never seems to slow down for Lightroom editing - a wonderful "appliance". The Samsung T5 and T7 are both more than good enough to edit from, although I haven't started video editing just yet. T7 is faster than T5 but it gets really hot while editing, the T5 doesn't.
@@mickmckean7378 I use an M1 Max with 32gb. Editing off a synology ds1621+ it is excellent. The power is fine coming from a solar installation. We are at 9hours a day without power right now with warning that we could go to 14hrs because of the war. So backup power is vital.
You can imagine what 14 hours a day without power does to our economy. The mismanagement of water and power is really getting bad.
@@WillGoodlet that's a good rig, I bet it made you happy with the performance improvement. Sad to hear SA is having those troubles, hope everyone can band together, conserve and last it out and the government improved infrastructure. One of those Tesla-style batteries for your house would be a good investment from the sound of it (if they sell them to SA that is). Good luck, hope the wildlife photography is great and a nice distraction from the world's worries.
Great work on this video. I use NTFS for all my backup devices. Even though macs read NTFS, I use a product called NTFS for mac from paragon software for the volume of devices. Have you ever looked into Amazon Cloud services or AWS. I know that my backup plan is OK for me but I don't have the volume that you have. I really enjoyed this video.
Hi David, thanks for watching. It was a long one to make and I cut a lot of the details - perhaps better in a blog post.
Paragon is a life saver. I use extFS to the same thing with ext4 drives.
I have been looking at Amazon - but the expense of storage / recovery seems a bit arcane to work out. Additionally, when I price it Backblaze C2 is cheaper and Synology C2 cheaper still - but both of those are too expensive for me.
I went with iDrive, which I somehow got for $3.78 for the entire first year and $79 thereafter. Only 10TB but the most important stuff can go on there. It's so much faster than Crashplan which I just cancelled today (8 months it was saying to finish my upload!) iDrive did it in less than 2 weeks.
Another way is to buy a second NAS, populate it and take it to safety deposit box; then you switch it with the one that is at your house every (you put days here). Also I use a external hard drive as a time machine device attached to my M1 mac.
I deliberately avoided the R5 due to file size. Went down the Sony route and have slowly been building up the Glass and use a third party Cannon Lut for my image.
File sizes are a lot smaller and I use Raid and Hard drive for backup.
Do you mean the video file size is smaller? I dont find the photos too bad especially in craw.
@@WillGoodlet I make videos for British Armed Forces overseas.
So R5 video file size was just way to big and to be thoughtful no one coukd handle them before the introduction of the Apple M1.
So currently have 1×FX6 2x FX3 and an A1 for specialist photography as and when required.
So one Raid and an additional SSD drive which I send to BFPO head office every week.
As living in the Philippines means Brown outs, power surges and piss poor Internet.
This is before you add in the Earthquakes Typhoons and Volcanoes.
So the challenge is real but by sending the SSD it is catalogued and backed up by the MOD.
@@parasinthephilippines Last time I was in the Philippines mount Pinatubo had just erupted (1991) - was incredible going through the ash. I'll never forget it! I wish I had a camera back then.
It was almost impossible to edit R5 / R6 video before the Mac. Insane also that RAW was easier than H265. So much better now I am using an M1.
Take care out there!
PS very jealous of your FX6.. I'd like to try a proper cinema camera.
@@WillGoodlet I love it purely for the built in ND filters and also the fans on both this and tge FX3's as the sun is your biggest enemy here.
I have a degree in IT and studied backup (BU), advised, set up, etc. for many years and I was able to recover a few times. Still have the majority of what matters but it is also down to luck.
As you can never cover all angles/risks and especially for the majority of us that don't do photography as a living it is exceedingly difficult/costly to justify 1K a year for cloud storage, or >1K every 5 years for RAID or a NAS, etc. iDrive is USD 80 a year (for the first year) for 10 Tera and then goes to 150, Adobe for the creative cloud is USD 60 month.... very quickly you have bills and you haven't taken a single photo. :-)
So the issue is to decide what risks you can afford to manage, mitigate, etc. E.g. If my whole house burns down my digital photos maybe the least of my worry. There are so many other more valuable things that I will never be able to get back. And we don't do anything about all those other things.
All of what Will says is true, there are however, a couple of things I would highlight/advise that he didn't pick upon and could potentially save $1000s and hrs of hassle:
1) get an uninterrupted power supply (UPS) it's is like a small battery combined with a surge protector. Plug the UPS to the mains and then your computer and HD/SDDs, NAS... to the UPS. It is a plug and play/plug and forget system. With a UPS you have peace of mind from thunders, and dodgy grid spikes, etc. Your machines will work better anyway even under standard operating procedures. UPS is relatively cheap, for a moderately sized system. I have my UPS for more than a decade.
2) whatever solution one opts for (i.e. risks decide to manage) -> automate your BU procedures. Automating is key, because even the best and most expensive systems if you don't follow it means nothing. And it is very difficult to eliminate human error, etc. Even the crappiest BU system if it is automated it will have more chances of recovery than a better system that depends on you doing something at particular moments in time.
I have no perfect solution (not that any exists). Learn to distinguish the differences in the circumstances; e.g. out in the field (cause you need a separate BU/file management when in protracted assignment somewhere away from home) vs back home/business as usual. Volume of data and for different data, these also make a lot of difference. E.g. all my videos from VHS days I store digital copies at my father's house. Of course they need to be played otherwise they degrade.
Even DVDs degrade (everything degrades its called entropy :-) And technological systems change, suddenly your computer cannot read what you assumed it was always going to be able to read or doesn't recognise the external device, etc. You have to spend hrs troubleshooting...
That's my two cents.
There's at least $20 here :) Thanks for the info and insight Dimitris! I cut 20 minutes out of the video - I can't tell you how many times I fell asleep making this video!
I've go surge protectors and UPS on everything these days. The power is also conditioned through the solar inverter and battery system - but ALL of that just blew up. Now, the drill is that when we hear thunder, which is almost twice a day now, we shut down the NAS and NVR (and disconnect them from everything) disconnect everything else in the house, including network cables, switch off the mains and disconnect the solar inverter. I'm pretty sure if we get hit again we will still lose a lot of stuff but I'll be dammed if it is my NAS!
I can't justify all the costs, but I got iDrive for $3.78 for the first year and $79 thereafter, worth a try. It's so much faster than CrashPlan. But my main backup is going to have to be to HDD.
You are right on hardware too - it never ends. I was reading Peter Krogh's DAM book and getting very depressed about having to run VM's of my software to keep all my old stuff going (in the future). We are going to have to constantly migrate this stuff to new systems and media.
One of the things that really irritated me moving to Mac was the lack of support for 32bit software - maybe it just caught me by surprise, I thought I had covered all the software bases before making my decision... My perfectly good Spyder 4 pro colour calibration doesn't work. How will we ever deal with global warming if we continually build obsolescence into products.
Adobe USD60? Do you need that software? I ditched it. Using DaVinci Resolve for video, which I like a LOT better than premiere pro. I am not using Adobe illustrator right now, but that and photoshop are the only tools I would really really miss if I stopped using Adobe.
@@WillGoodlet tnx - so just to clarify you had UPS before and the thunder or whatever fried both the UPS and the computer you had plugged to the UPS? I can accept that the UPS may fry but what is after it should survive.
@@WillGoodlet Davinci requires a lot of expensive hardware (I and many mortals don't have :-). And I was referring to the whole suite Lr and Indesign etc. Aren't you using Lr? How do you do your file /archive management?
@@dimitristsagdis7340 I moved over to imatch on PC but back to Photo supreme on Mac (I used it in the past) this handles other file types, audio, pdf, etc much better than LR
Is rooftop solar a reasonable option for you?
RAID is built for reliability, not speed. If your raid is simply writing data to two disks, that takes longer. Probably not twice as long, but longer. RAID protects against hardware failure, hardware failure is the least likely way you will lose data. Last week, I accidentally deleted a virtual machine. I don't have anything important in virtual machines, fortunately. RAID would not have helped me. A backup to another drive would have.
Those cheap "my cloud" and similar devices run Linux. My DVD recorder runs FreeBSD,. Those would be the major options for RAID devices, at least at the lower end. Mind you, I'd not be surprised if storage sourced from IBM runs Linux.
For me, duplication and off-site storage is probably the best option. On the east coast, people need to be careful. There are often huge storms, and they're feeling the effects of climate change. 600 mm+ of rain in 24 hours in hilly Brisbane isn't going to hang around. Around south eastern Queensland and north eastern NSW, the rivers have overflowed and are have been burying or carrying away houses.
In the 70s I worked for a government department and pur computer in Brisbane was in the basement. Came the flood, and the computer was sitting in escaped sewage. Caused a right stink. Hopefully, expensive computers now live in high buildings and on the tops of high mountains.
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We have solar - blown up with the ups and lithium battery backup for 8hours runtime - and then replaced. This is essential in SA life is unbearable otherwise. We also have a generator.
Power is therefore conditioned on entry to the house but additionally each plug has a surge protector and electric equipment has individual ups
In lightning storms - which have been the worst I can remember this year - we shutdown all power and disconnect everything and wait them out. We have a lightning mast too.
Luckily we are halfway up a hillside and the river can’t get us. But thatched roof so lightning and fire are constantly on the mind.
I use my Nas to read from not write to. With 6 bays it is achieving adequate read speed for live 4K editing without proxy.
It’s the main copy of data - so it supplies error corrected source files to all the backups. And I edit video and image files held on it. Naturally editing is NLE and non-destructive so nothing is written back to the file.
This works extremely well. Transfer speeds are adequate are 600MB per second both ways. This can be increased by adding a little more RAM and a couple of cache drives but not necessary right now.
So far the system is excellent and is 50TB right now and expandable to 170TB which I hope will do me for a good while :)
Using a 4 bay DAS arrayed as single backup destinations (no spanning) - to run backups daily. Rotated weekly off site.
Additionally I have a cloud backup running daily but this lags after a trip due to slower upload speed for new recorded footage.
Using laptop now - so it also is somewhat lightning resistant and easy to disconnect from power and keep working on non-editing tasks.
With your risk of flooding offsite is going to be crucial! My issue is mainly theft and power risks - I lose some of the benefits of nas due to constant fear of power spikes. And also lose some sleep over risk of theft especially when I am not at home.
But it’s insured. And copied offsite best I can do
@@WillGoodlet What could be done about it. Our power here is pretty reliable, but we don't have a lot of rough weather. Large parts of the Eastern States have interesting summers. I expect you heard about the fires in 2019. Those were extinguished by the floods that followed. The floods were almost under control and Covid-19 arrived. Covid-19 is somewhat under control and now more floods. The floods can be serious, they wash houses away.
You realy tought this trough Will, there is a lot of stuff to think about here. I hope that I will never experience the amount of trouble you had to face after that lightning strike. I recently had some back up trouble myself. My 4tb nas has 2 hdd in it and one had a failure. So I ordered a new hdd but unfortunatly the second hdd crashed before i installed the new one leaving me with nothing... lucky for me I backup on seperate external ssd but it got me thinking... why do i even have a nas if shit like this can happen? So frustrating... I hope you sorted everything out now and can look to the future again. How is the covid situation doing in sa? Grt guido
Hi Guido, oh man that's tough on the HDD. I've also been worried about only having 1 disk redundancy on my unit too. I am rebuilding a new drive now and with all the power outages it's making me a bit nervous...
Luckily, in my case the NAS gave me good warning one of the drives was unhealthy.
I've also got backups to HDD, like you. And a full backup online now. You are the first person I've heard about who had a failure on a rebuild. Terrible luck, I'm sorry.
Everyone is ignoring covid over here, life is mostly back to normal. Although my wife thinks she may have it, going for a test tomorrow.
Hope you and the family are well otherwise!
@Will Goodlet yes i was realy unlucky with that. After some research I discovered that the hdd in my nas where not suitable for a nas. Western digital told me that these drives were never allowed in a nas. So I contacted amazon about this but they just gave me the finger... so now I bought 2 seagate ironwolf hdd specialy made for nas syatems. Hopefully tese wil last longer dan 2 years and 3 months. But it does show how important all these multiple backups are. Now that I'm making videos myself I'm running trough storage space twice as fast so I Need to rethink my selection methods. Ow that is not so nice hopefully she wil be recovering soon. You have been trough enough I would say. My whole family had corona halfway trough januari. My son probably brought it home from the daycare so we all got infected. But luckely we didn't get realy sick. Just a couple of days of fever and a cold and then it was over for all of us. Thank god for that because like you we have been trough enough also 😉
Yes those Ironwolfs should be much better than standard drives and I think some Ironwolf (maybe Ironwolf pro) are offered with data recovery services too. My seagate Ironwolf have been good so far. My failed drive was a Toshiba NAS drive. 3 years old.
Yeah, storage is a huge problem with video - you've got to come up with a strategy on what to keep and what to discard. Don't know if you are using a Mac but you can trim clips with Quicktime and keep the same quality (from my experience) that has been really useful to me when I have 2 minutes of video of some animal with only 15 seconds of something happening. I can trim the rest and save the space. Takes a lot of time to do this though.
I wasn't able to find a way to do that with a PC.
@Will Goodlet yes I shure hope dose ironwolfs are worth the investment. I decided to delete all my videos footage after I processed the video en just keep the end result that goes on UA-cam. I also noticed that I have to watch out with the cache that davinci resolve produces. Omg that takes a lot of space! I'm shooting so much videos at the moment I just can't keep up with posting them haha. I've got 8 ready at the moment so I scheduled them all on UA-cam for the next 5 weeks. So now I have some time to relax and solve some backup issues and work on my website for a while 🤣