I'd also add that whenever one uses a hard drive to back up files, never use a solid state drive - EVER. When those things die, there is absolutely no way you can recover any data, because of the read/write mechanism unique to them. Colt Capperrune lost all of his projects this way, and it's much better to use a spinning HDD than an SSD for backups. With a HDD, the data is actually salvageable.
Good to know and thanks so much for sharing! Thankfully, I'm not using solid state for any of my back ups. I'll pin this comment to make sure others see. Thanks!
@@SeawellStudios My pleasure, and thanks for pinning it! Solid state drives are awesome for pretty much anything other than backing up files, so it's great to have one as a system disk. :D
Dude, Backblaze saved my ass last year. I had a drive die and it contained about 10 years worth of projects.... I literally cried when it happened and then I remembered I had BackBlaze
I used to own a HD recorder, my HD crashed and I lost over 40 songs. Since then I double backup all my recordings. Something you don’t always think about until it happens you find yourself banging your head against the wall 😢🤯😡😳😨😱🥴😵💫
Ah man, sorry to hear that! It's definitely hard early on in your career to set aside a decent amount of money to get your back up solution shored up. Like most things in life, we usually have to learn it ourselves, the hard way. Hopefully at least one person will see this video before it happens and never have to experience it, it's the absolute worst! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment!
"3-2-1 backup strategy" all the way. friends. 💪 It doesn't necessarily have to be an expensive unit like that, you can get RAID enclosures for NVMe drives for very affordable (the benefit of these is they're stupidly fast). This is an especially good time to invest in storage, given the current all-time-low pricing. Also, if a drive dies, and you're within a warranty period of the drive, you may be entitled to free data recovery, otherwise you can send it off for recovery yourself. Happens all the time.
Great video Josh! My backup strategy is exactly the same as yours. I’ve been a long time user of Time Machine and OWC drives and I added Backblaze to my setup two years ago. It’s like insurance policy. It’s not fun to purchase but turns out to be a « stress remover »…😊
That's awesome Daniel! I'm glad to hear you came up with the same solution. I can't imagine a better combo, it definitely helps me sleep better at night 😁
This is sage advice. If you’re broke google will give you a few GB of free drive storage with a gmail account. You can have folder on your HD that auto syncs to the cloud so you can at least have a running cloud backup of your current project.
