Cloud Storage and Drives for Creators!
- Dylan Edmunds
- May 19, 2021
- 2 min read
Updated: Jul 21, 2021
Storage is definitely the most important topic you need to learn about if you plan on creating tons of digital content. Misplacing an important hard drive, or your drive/computer randomly dying are inevitable events.
To greatly minimize the risk of data loss it's important to have one "on-site" backup and two "off-site" backups. On-site means that it's at the location where you work. Off-site means that it isn't located where you work. The most obvious off-site storage solution is Cloud-based storage.
Don't be that person that loses their life's work, because they didn't take 1 minute to back it up!!
CLOUD and Off-Site Backups
The very first thing you need to get is cloud storage......and get this........ it's incredibly cheap.
For $6 a month your computer and EVERY DRIVE THAT IS PLUGGED INTO IT will be backed up to the cloud with NO MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF UPLOAD!
Backblaze the cheapest cloud backup ($6/month)
Backblaze has already saved my a$$ on numerous occasions. Last year I had 300GB of production material die off with a LaCie rugged drive that stopped working. I immediately was able to recover all of it through their digital download center. Six dollars a month is outrageously cheap for the peace of mind that it brings!
On-site Backups
For on-site drives/backups here's what I recommend:
If you do music content the Lacie 2big is great. You can partition it and run a time machine backup for everything on your computer, as well as have extra space for completely archiving all your completed music projects. I used a Lacie 2big as my main backup solution for a very long time and it never failed me. However, this unit can be noisy at times; and if you can't store it outside of the place where you record or create; eventually you might get annoyed by the light hummmmmmmm.
If you do visual content as well as music, you'll probably want to go with a "Network Attached Storage" device also know as a NAS. To be honest, I don't know a lot of home studio owners who are using a "NAS," but it clearly has advantages over using regular hard drives. The first advantage is that it is modular; meaning you can upgrade its components and easily swap out drives if one fails down the line. The second advantage is that, as your storage needs grow, it is very easy to annex more storage to a NAS unit. The third advantage is that they can transfer data over Cat7 ethernet cables (which are extremely fast); this also allows you to store a NAS far away from your computer without losing performance speeds. Here's a video of me talking about Network Storage 💾💾💾👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
What I use 👇🏼
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-Dylan
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