Multiple back ups.

[RDB85]

If you have 10TB of live data now that you need to back up somewhere, and your requirements are also that you want some storage space (in addition to the backups) and we very conservatively say that means you need ~14TB in total when accounting for the growth of backup volumes (there's no mention of retention here) with a few hundred GB of this storage, I am fairly confident that £1500 is not enough of a budget for this. However you've not been able to answer the data growth question and as far as I can see the requirement for this to be backup as well as live data storage (where is this live data being backed up to? or is it not important?) is new.

It’s 10TB of data from old hard drives, SD Cards, and USB Pens and External Hard Drives. I do need to go through it all tbh when I’ve time. That’s how much data I’ve got in total.

Sorry if I missed something out. I’d probably equate for another say 4-6TB. The live data I have at present is stored on my Mac Mini. I’ve then bought a USB HDD and use Time Machine to back it up to that.

 

[Caged]

How much data do you have in total that needs storing, and how much do you expect that to increase by in the next three years?

It's academic either way, you don't have the budget. Drive prices have gone mad and it will take years if they're going to come down again.

 

[RDB85]

I don't think anyone's mentioned this, but power banks won't be of any use in these scenarios - they can't switch the power supply quick enough to avoid the risk of data loss caused by losing power mid-write/modify.

Any suggestions?

 

[RDB85]

How much data do you have in total that needs storing, and how much do you expect that to increase by in the next three years?

It's academic either way, you don't have the budget. Drive prices have gone mad and it will take years if they're going to come down again.

Total that needs to storing would be 6TB. Next 3 years 4TB.

 

[robj20]

Does £70 shy of £1000 not still count as "you can just about acquire the storage disks for the stated budget of most of your requests"?

I didn't say otherwise, but it gives you more space straight away and 1 bay remaining for future expansion.