Hi All,
Hopefully a basic one for you all.
I have been searching for a solution that is simple to use and that requires no effort on my behalf to maintain. The problem that that needs the solution is that I am now producing YouTube videos and they are taking up a lot of my space on my existing HDDs, and I have no backup at all.
I looked at getting something like a WD external drive solution that has RAID1 but I am unsure on how good these actually are. All I ever see if people shucking these and not actually using them as intended.
So, I came up with the idea that I would add a new 8TB HDD to my PC internally, and have the same size externally that the internal automatically backs up too on a schedule. My thinking is that if one fails, the other is the backup, but also as one will be internal and the other not, this adds another layer of protection from fault too. If I put it all onto an external, and even if that external had RAID1, there is always the chance the device will fail itself and my data lost anyway - right?
My questions to you all are is my idea stupid and also, what manufactures should I gravitate too and which to avoid with the drives?
All thoughts welcome.
Thanks
Scott
Hopefully a basic one for you all.
I have been searching for a solution that is simple to use and that requires no effort on my behalf to maintain. The problem that that needs the solution is that I am now producing YouTube videos and they are taking up a lot of my space on my existing HDDs, and I have no backup at all.
I looked at getting something like a WD external drive solution that has RAID1 but I am unsure on how good these actually are. All I ever see if people shucking these and not actually using them as intended.
So, I came up with the idea that I would add a new 8TB HDD to my PC internally, and have the same size externally that the internal automatically backs up too on a schedule. My thinking is that if one fails, the other is the backup, but also as one will be internal and the other not, this adds another layer of protection from fault too. If I put it all onto an external, and even if that external had RAID1, there is always the chance the device will fail itself and my data lost anyway - right?
My questions to you all are is my idea stupid and also, what manufactures should I gravitate too and which to avoid with the drives?
All thoughts welcome.
Thanks
Scott