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Lucian Dragos

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Hello Tom's hardware,

As the limits of mech drives are being pushed more and more, as well as quality controls slipping into what seems to be an "get it done cheap and to hell with the failure rate" mentality. My trust in my newer hard drives is lacking.. and unlike even a few years ago rebuilding the lost data from a failure is much harder.

So now I am looking for an affordable and durable way to back up about 3.5Tb worth of data.. I have seen newer tape units that could do it on one or two tapes but the price for the hardware is way out of range (over $900 usd).. While trusting another HDD seems counterproductive if my concern is the quality of new drives...
 
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The absolute cheapest is dvd. You can make 2 copies for $50 or less. This cost will repeat with every backup you make. Unfortunately its also the most time consuming.

Next up is HDD. a couple of 4tb backup drives will set you back ~ $300. This is a onetime purchase and you can reuse these drives everytime you backup.

For a few hundred more you can build a cheap server.

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there are two backups now that are free or low cost to people. one is cloud backup both microsoft and google and other data centers give you a free set amount now. with there software or a low cost thrid party backup software you can make a bootable ghost image of your hard drive then upload it to the cloud. the other cheap back up are blueray burners. there down to 40.00 now plus the cost of 9gb blank disks. the older dvd disk will work too if you have a dvd burner you just make a disk image of your drive then span it to 2 dvd disks.
 
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Lucian Dragos

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I have looked thought of using 8gb double layer DVDs but to back up 3.5 terabyte's of data will need a huge stack of disks and even BDXL Blu-ray's will need at least 28 disks at quite a cost. And that is if you can even find the media for it... I was hoping for a better method..
 
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somthing that larger get a account a iron mnt or other pro online backup system. it be cheaper for you to use the internet and emc or other backup software that small biz would use to make a main backup then only send changed files to the online storage.
 
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Lucian Dragos

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I will have to do some research of that. It's a shame the cost of tape systems has gone so high.. Really I was just looking for a mass archive method since all its for is the recovery in the event of an complete drive failure, Not a file by file instance
 
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The absolute cheapest is dvd. You can make 2 copies for $50 or less. This cost will repeat with every backup you make. Unfortunately its also the most time consuming.

Next up is HDD. a couple of 4tb backup drives will set you back ~ $300. This is a onetime purchase and you can reuse these drives everytime you backup.

For a few hundred more you can build a cheap server.

 
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