Storage overload

[JamesMay82]

I’d class myself as average consumer but feeling overwhelmed with back up strategy and the cost of it all.

Music library is 220GB
iTunes movies and tv 9TB
Family videos = 1.2 TB
Photo Library = 300GB

So total is roughly 10.7TB

this means I’d need roughly 20TB to cover this and future expansion and technically the same again to keep a backup of the original date which pricing up is a cost of nearly 2k if I go for two LaCie 2 big 20TB dockS..

Even I left my iTunes library in the cloud I’d need about a grands of hard drivesto Manage the back up etc.

Anyone else in the same boat? Young people today must be in a worst situation than me with all video and selfies they take lol?

 

[Fishrrman]

One has to separate "the wheat" from "the chaff" and start throwing out stuff you know you'll never need or watch again...

 

[satcomer]

I’d class myself as average consumer but feeling overwhelmed with back up strategy and the cost of it all.

Music library is 220GB
iTunes movies and tv 9TB
Family videos = 1.2 TB
Photo Library = 300GB

So total is roughly 10.7TB

this means I’d need roughly 20TB to cover this and future expansion and technically the same again to keep a backup of the original date which pricing up is a cost of nearly 2k if I go for two LaCie 2 big 20TB dockS..

Even I left my iTunes library in the cloud I’d need about a grands of hard drivesto Manage the back up etc.

Anyone else in the same boat? Young people today must be in a worst situation than me with all video and selfies they take lol?

Get a Smart NAS and put this libraries on that to save start drive space!

 

[Schismz]

Similar situation. Backup boot and SSD RAID0 to TB3 RAID50 > NAS > and BigFatReallyHuge RAID1 Spinning Rust, which is like sucking the ocean through a straw, but OTOH, who cares, the whole point is to unplug and rotate whenever reminders nag me to do it.

You could backup everything to cloud (I wouldn't suggest iCloud for this purpose). Apple itself uses Backblaze.

So, I have like 5 copies of all my stuff. Having said that, in a decade+ of mostly living on RAID0's with 4+ drives, I've had remarkably few failures or need of even 1 copy. (But, see, that's because I have a lot of copies. If I had no copies, all of it would immediately sense a Disturbance in the Force and go down in flames 3 hours later.)

I try to delete crap I'm not ever going to look at again instead of curating it And use a NAS, would sum up a simple and relatively inexpensive strategy.