Back up solution for photos & videos

[Big Bang]

Hi all,

Over the years I've saved my photos & videos from my camera and phone onto my now 16 year old Samsung Spinpoint P 250GB hard disk drive. While it has served me well, I know that it will eventually stop working and I should have a back up solution anyway! I know I should have done this years ago, but better late than never I suppose!

I was hoping some of the forum members could point me into the direction of a backup solution. My thinking is to purchase a WD external hard drive and copy my photos and videos onto it. While on the subject, I know the best thing to backup your data is to use the 3, 2, 1 solution. I'm a bit unsure which (if any) of the Cloud storage solutions are worth getting, or if another solution is available.

Many thanks for everyone's advice in advance.

 

[Big Bang]

Thank you all very much everyone for your replies. Certainly some interesting reading.

I should have already said what my existing setup was at the start. I have my main OS is booting up from a Crucial SSD and the Samsung HDD is what I use for saving my photos and videos.

I'm thinking about possibly going for purchasing 2 x SSDs. 1 to go inside my existing PC in the existing PC and use it as an additional/backup drive to my existing Samsung. (Is having 2 SSD and 1 HDD in the PC a good or bad idea?) and purchasing an external SSD caddy for the other SSD for "offline" backups. Should the worst happen to my PC e.g. a power surge or theft.

Again I am very grateful for the replies to my query.