How do you store your files at home?
5 internal HDDs + full backup on separate HDD locked in fireproof safe at all times
EDIT: Steam games are on their own SSD that I don't backup because I don't care
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Synology NAS DS214+ with 3TB HDDs in RAID1
I prefer NAS over PC any time, because of quieter operation, lower power consumption, many usefull apps from synology (DLNA streaming, Web server, Mail server, and much more), apps for phones to access files anywhere in the world.
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QNAP TVS-871 running in raid 6 so it can cope with 2 drives dying.
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All on a single computer, archived on
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I have a small NAS from WD (2TB), the ones they made for home market (got it for $130 or so on an Amazon Prime Day a couple years ago). I use it mainly to store big stuff (videos, installers) and stream videos to Chromecast without having to turn my PC on. It was actually pretty easy to set up.
Personal data (photos, documents and stuff) is stored on my PC only (on 2 different HDs).
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Using a Synology NAS which stores posonal files. Sync is done between PC, Laptop and NAS with DS Cloud to NAS to have several copies in case something fails.
Despite I got a 2bay-NAS I only use 1 slot right now. The HDD contains the "own files" from DS Cloud and unimportant files that do not need to be duplicate or are on some other drives in my PC.
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So better buy additional drive and create a RAID volume. Otherwise you can sometime lose your data (part of them or entire storage on total disk failure).
I also wait for this - too long. I lost one HDD (but I have copy from month ago). After this lesson I spend some money and created RAID5 volume.
One year ago one of disk in RAID5 has got error and I exchanged him for a new one. After array rebuilding everyone works again without problems. Your data will be valuable when you will need them again (like photos etc.) :D
Same day in work we lost disk array with over 150 disks due to motherboard failure (2 from 3 motherboards in storage was damaged in few hours). This day was a nightmare... 3 days to recreate systems and biggest database from tapes, One week to revive all services.
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RAID is no backup strategy but a way to prevent hardware failures (and to be back on faster). In case of external occurances like a thunderstorm this also fails as - even if unplugged - potential differences (this is the definition of voltage btw.) can occur and damage any device.
Four years ago our neighbor got a lightning strike in his roof and our house was affected indirectly trough mentioned potential differences. The router and my brother's TV broke. So - unless you use a Faraday's cage - everything can fail ;) Or you are just not that unlucky that it affects those media devices.
Another system I am planing for the future is to set up a cloud backup with an alternative of GoodSync to upload (secured with boxcryptor) to dropbox or onedrive. But tbh onedrive is weaker as there are stupid restrictions (like you can only use certain filenames, e.g. no "%", wtf?!)
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Yeah. Few years ago my friend bring me one time disks from his array in work to help him with data recovery because he got a power source failure... and this was an old storage where producer from few years don't made component replacement. He can't rebuild array due to strange filesystem (I don't know - X-RAID or something like this?). He used some programs but without success... only part of data are accessible. Finally we manually do the work and recover rest of unavailable files.
The worst failure is to lose data what you need (no matter of amount)....
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Single computer and Dropbox/GDrive copies for my important files. Would be great to RAID 3 or 4 drives if you have the budget though.
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Mine are all scattered on mainly two external hard drives and increasingly often (since both externals are filled) my PC. I should really go buy a new external HDD these days... I hate my disorder xD
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I don't have much stuff that's actually worth backing up, but the stuff that I do care for I keep synchronized with Dropbox.
The rest of the stuff is scattered between a desktop pc and two notebooks.
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I have been using floopy disc for many and many years and I am very satisfied with it. Yes, its capacity is small but it's ok if you have more diskettes.
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One word. Chaos. They're scattered across 5 devices(pc. laptop, tablet, 2 phones), 3 extrernal HDDs, a number of flash drives and online storage services. No sharing.
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I have two computers, and I don't really care where's my stuff, like whichever computer I use for downloading/creating it, there it will stay. No sharing.
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Single computer and cloud. I don't have a lot of files, I saved a lot of space on my HD after I started using Spotify and Netflix for music, TV shows and movies. Got some family pictures in it, and I should really back those up in the cloud someday - any documents and study-related files are also stored in the cloud. Apart from that, 67% of my 465 GB HD is being used by Steam games.
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I store most of my data on my laptop only, but I also keep a back-up on an external drive which gets updated at random and long in between intervals, but I also use Dropbox to share files between my laptop and desktop. So I didn't know which poll option to choose ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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Read the title as "how do you store your lives at home". Was very confused for a minute :)
And to answer your question, I just don't. That's why when two of my previous hard drives were failing, I barely managed to save some of the data. I know that I should learn to backup, and I have external HDDs for that. But I'm just failing to allocate the time for it.
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Depends, media is shared via Plex & Kodi. Important stuff encrypted and backed up in the cloud & on dvd. Thinking about something like forever.com for photos, but it's quite expensive and you're still trusting the company.
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I've set up a very cheap file server with used parts and plugged a 3TB HDD to it. No need for redundancy or anything, not like I'm dealing with state files over here.
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scattered between 2 computers, no network sharing (except dropbox, if that counts..)
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1 computer + about 7 external HDDs of different capacities. I really should find some time and sort the contents of these drives.
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one pc+mega+dropbox+drive+puush (I filled only 0.50GB all of them)
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12TB home server, saves all my pirated important movies and music, etc. :X
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For the sake of this poll, it's not important if your data is all on internal hard drives or if some of it is on external drives, but feel free to relate to this aspect in a comment.
Personally my data is scattered between multiple computers, with local network file sharing. I don't have NAS because I don't really see the benefit compared to adding more disks to my desktop computer (which is on 24x7), but I'd be happy to hear why this would be better.
O.GA
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