Cheapest way to back up my data.

Slade2

Slade2

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Hi all,

I have recently undergone a drive failure and this has prompted me to find a solution for my backup needs.

Currently I have about 8TB of various items that I would like to keep but mostly its videos of the children growing up and some media. The is currently stored on my main downstairs PC on a number of drives (1TB, 2x3TB and 1x4TB)

I am looking for a solution that will allow me to store the files somewhere were I at least have some redundancy for the data. I have an old PC in the loft (an old gaming PC that has a Q660 I believe that I could happily get out of the loft and rebuild using some software to allow me to use that purely as a nas drive if that is possible?

Otherwise I suppose I am looking a some other 4 bay nas solution as I would also like to get at least 12TB preferable to have 16TB but I understand that might not be possible if I am going to use a drive for parity if I have a raid array.

I do use plex on my current PC and would like the new solution to at least continue to be comparable in use to plex if possible.

What are the great minds of OCUK`s suggestions for this?

Thanks,

Slade2 :)
 
Thanks Crinkleshoes, I laughed at this reply at first but to be honest it isn't a bad idea, I have a 200meg connection now so wouldn't be an issue with getting the stuff back down the pipe so to speak but I would prefer to keep my data local if I`m honest just wondering what the options that are out there are. Wouldn't mind a Hp microserver but I suppose I already have a pc upstairs that could do that just perhaps need some info on what the best choices I need to make are :)
 
Don't confuse data backup with data resilience or redundancy. If you don't have an off-site backup and backup to a box in the loft you'll still lose everything to a house fire.
 
I understand that quartz, I am more concerned with the drives dying if I`m honest I have had them for a number of years and I suppose I`m playing with fire to expect them to continue to work forever. If my house was to burn down I think I would be a little less worried about the data but I do understand your point.
 
You could use the PC you already have, sure... I built my own home server also.

I also have 2x HP Gen8s that I use only as fileservers. They're great for that... half the price of a basic 4-bay Synology and much much quicker to use/transfer... same software, so easy raid setup and redundancy.

Can't recommend much better than that for your intended use... perfect price/performance.

It'll also use much much less power than your Q6600-based PC.
 
kayomani said:
Amazon unlimited is only available in the US. The UK only gets unlimited photo storage.
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You can easily get it with a UK address / Amazon account... I did and only a few weeks ago ;)

All you need to do is use a proxy to create the cloud storage account, based from your UK amazon account... it's very easy and you get the unlimited storage.

The connection speed to/from Europe is plenty fast enough - more than enough to stream 4K content if needed... I'm almost tempted to upload my entire media library and have Kodi pull straight from the http link - I'm getting a 500/50mbit connection in a month - so plenty of bandwidth for it.
 
Slade2 said:
I understand that quartz, I am more concerned with the drives dying if I`m honest I have had them for a number of years and I suppose I`m playing with fire to expect them to continue to work forever. If my house was to burn down I think I would be a little less worried about the data but I do understand your point.
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It's why I recommended the amazon cloud storage... they have the redundancy covered for you and if you lose everything at home, you still have that important data.

I've been using google drive 1tb for a long time, but as long as i'm happy with amazon - I'll likely cancel gdrive.

I still have 50tb+ of data... only 400GB is synced to gdrive... the stuff I really want to keep / would struggle to replenish... like your kiddie vids.
 
Please consider using offsite backup, as well as local.

Arq + Amazon Cloud Drive isn't a bad combination.
 
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