Backblaze is really good if you only need for 1 device. The unlimited rewind essentially means unlimited storage for whatever your device can hold. You can delete things knowing you can recover them years later if you wanted. It's around $95 per year on the two year plan (again for one device). Then $0.005/GB/month on files you recover older than 2 years
@@lurking5018 Yeah, execpt fires are more rare than a company deliberately cutting you off from your data, and it doesn't even have to burn down to the ground to do that - they can just close your account one day from no reason and what are you gonna do about it? :q
Sadly can’t trust them if they become greedy and you’re broke show as using it for a project, you’re full on screwed if they decide “ooo too long to pay you can’t have any of these files now but we’re gonna force you to keep our program on your pc *cough*dropbox*cough*
That's exactly why I've never understood people who just throw away all files once they're done with them. I've had so many moments where I was extremely glad that I kept something.
Sometimes you don’t have the space or resources to buy more space. 😅 So while it’s unfortunate, I understand the struggle. There’s so many projects I wish I’d kept back ups of, but didn’t have enough space, or money at the time.
I recently bought a new backup drive. Backed up everything. Two weeks later the new drive completely died. Luckily I also had backups elsewhere. Could have easily lost hundreds of hours of work, precious memories etc.
My man is not joking. Even if your not animating. Think of your steam games bro. The save files. !!The progress!! Precious photos/memories and anything else that ONLY EXISTS on a single hard drive! Hard drives are cheap. Never forget.
From experience: YES. I learned the hard way when I didn't do much backups...nearly none (stupid, yes) and windows for some reason wiped folders with my drawings clean. I lost 3 years of artworks, WIPs and source files 😭 Do.your.backups. don't be me 😂
Thinking about how many hours of work I've lost compared to how much it would have cost to back it up 😭 Losing a day's work may not sound like much, but I have ADHD and do everything is short bursts. So that on day of work was 8-16 hours of me glued to my screen. Something didn't save properly (twice!), and I nearly quit then and there because I'd lost SO much time. (Having a backup doesn't solve saving errors, but still. It was SO demotivating)
SSDs are cheap now too. There's hardly any reason to buy an HDD anymore- you can get a "slow" 2TB SSD for $40 or less and it's still worlds faster and more reliable than any hard drive. Don't buy HDDs unless you want to lose your data. - a person who learned the hard way.
Guess I cannot trust any "articles by experts" what a drive's shelf-life is. According to them I need to keep a SSD charged every so often to keep the data for 10 years or more, whereas HDD can be left alone for much longer before having to re-write the data.
@@Edward256 SSDs are built really well nowadays. I don't think charge loss is as much of a concern as some people act like it is. I've never had an SSD fail. I'll say this though: every time you write data to an HDD, you risk losing it all. If your home power suddenly cuts off due to a storm or whatever, the HDD head can crash on the platter and quite literally carve scratch marks all over your data. If an SSD loses power, maaaybe a little data that you just saved was still in the cache and you lost a few seconds of work, but otherwise it's all still gonna be intact.
@@Cantersoft I guess much has changed over these couple of years since the articles were written. And I just bought 5 platters for long-term backups for my continuously accessed drives. I just hope I haven't wasted money and can access my data after 10 years of disuse.
@@Edward256 If you don't access them frequently and as long as they don't get dropped or jostled then they'll be okay. Personally I'd still prefer to get an SSD for long term backups, but I also usually access my data in shorter intervals than 10 years. So in your case maybe it doesn't matter, and if you got a good deal then hey.
I just wrote a comment about this, SSD's are AWESOME! I bought a 2TB SSD with a heatsink for 60 dollars, it was on sale and the original price was 80. Always buy your products from bestbuy, they have sales all the time, and if it goes on sale after you buy it, you can get a partial refund for the extra money you spent! I have the credit card which also gives you extra time to return products if they don't work right.
This is SO SO true. And make backups of your backups. I just lost 15 years of artwork and character design because a flash drive corrupted. I've tried to recover it, but it's like it never existed.
Damn, I feel for you. Some of my older flash drives weren’t working properly when I tried to access them last. I don’t know right now how much of information was on them or whether any of it can be recovered. It’s scary how fragile digital records are.
I don't do art, but I have a LOT of pets that I take lots of photos of. I always back them up on my internal SSD, a flashdrive, and on two separate google accounts, I use google photos and google drive. All of the passwords to my MANY accounts are linked together so if I ever forget a password, I can easily get into the account.
I'm reminded of that one idiot who is like, "if you need 1TB of space you're an idiot who shouldn't be using a computer" when I watch this and I'm just thinking, lol
My guy, please use an SSD... If your hard drive falls, you will probably lose everything. An SSD is more reliable, it's also smaller. I use an SSD with a heatsink for added protection. An SSD is usually the same price, or a tiny bit more, but they are a lot better.
I- fair enough. I don’t usually think those things are worth keeping since I don’t have much pride in my work(if I’m not satisfied with it). Thinking about it more like I could possibly make it better in the future or expand on an old idea with more options to play with makes saving my old files more appealing.
I have 20 tb of storage so I can hoard as much of my data as possible. And I have an off site hard drive with all my really important files that can't be re downloaded
and when he says hard-drives are cheap he MEANS hard-drives are cheap. Seriously. Go to the right store and you'll never have to worry about storage ever again 😂 if you use small ones, you might wanna put them into bigger things though, my parents lost half my shit while helping me move 😅
My question is how did you get a 3D render of the entirety of Canterlot I could really use that for reference without a doubt animations would be so much easier in that location if I just knew where everything was
I would just delete renders since video is massive but keep the source files. Are those program files that big or is there also renders with high bitrate in there?
The main problem is that I can't guarantee that the new renders will look exactly the same. Projects like TFoSS used an old version of Arnold I can't get access to anymore and newer versions don't give exactly the same results. Even with the same software I might have differences because I don't render with the same hardware. Keeping 300GB worth of render files is a lot less of a worry than trying to keep track of all of that.
@@somerandomguyfromthestreet464 Surprisingly. I had one sequence that would render bubbles as pure black if I attempted to render it on anything but CPU, and I did notice the noise pattern was different when rendering on NVidia and AMD cards. I think it's part of the tradeoff between accuracy and speed. I have no idea what to expect in the next ten years of computing, I might end with an ARM desktop computer that doesn't accurately render old scenes, so for peace of mind I keep the old files around just in case.
HEY I have a question, d'you know a good syncing program for backing up to external drives in a way that just updates files instead of having to either copy the whole file system or manually figure out which files you've changed? I keep putting off backups because it takes so long to do but my old external drive had a feature that automatically updated the backup with just the new or altered files so it took less time. Newer ones don't seem to come with any software that does that -- in fact the Seagate backup software is so slow it's not worth using and it doesn't even have that feature the old Maxtor drives had.
Hey I was hoping you could make a video of twilight and her friends fighting the giant spiders from my little pony comic issue 2 (but when they get cocooned in the one scene please make their tails sticking out not their heads, I like to hear them moaning in those cocoons including twilight) and have a great time animating 😊. 🕷️🕸️
I have 4 of 16TB HDD and i don't have enough space, need more money for second back up to any file all p**n game, AV, Anime, and game, need more 4 of 16TB HDD.
Relative to the amount of content they can store, they can be, but if you're looking for something cheaper there's always flash drives. I wouldn't recommend keeping files you expect to hold long term on flash drives as they generally use lower quality flash storage chips, but it doesn't hurt to have at least one form of backup for those files.
