We've been using the Seagate 8TB with Hub - sometimes $120 at Costco - Seems like the Expansion drive is similar but no USB hub inside. Have you had a chance to test out the expansion drive for speed? and noise?
It does it does still work and I'm not even one of those people that pulls out his hard drives and spins them up every couple of weeks I just spit them up when I'm looking for something which is usually maybe I don't know a few times a year so they do get spun up but not on a regular basis and they still work.
@@TodayIFeelLike Well I have a friend who has several Seagate drives and he hasn’t had the problems I’ve experienced so maybe I’m just the unlucky one 🤷🏽♂️
Yes. At first everything will be fine. But, later comes the screaming and horror when all 8TB of the drive crashes and corrupts everything on the drive. Trusting 8TB of data to the lasting health of a single drive, is like not even having the data! If you need 8TB of storage, get a standalone RAID, set up for at least, one Disc Failure Tolerance, or better.
@@TodayIFeelLike Depends. If it's a living, you might want to pay for a cloud service - read as - pay for, a cloud service. One that does not claim because you agree to use their free service that they own what's on their servers, and/or reserve the right to scan and quantify what's in your storage space. You want a service that you pay and sign a "contract" with. Remember those? The thing before the EULA came along with the free services. Down with the EULA, up with the classic, binding, Contract. Where both parties agree to it, and both parties are bound to it. Where, you make sure there is nothing in there, like, forced arbitration if the parties disagree - no, you want to be allowed to sue their asses, if they breach the... Contract. Contracts, yes! Keeps everyone honest. As opposed to EULA's, where they bend you over nine ways to Sunday, then tell you if you don't like it, you're only option is to go to arbitration, which, tends to favor the Company over the Individual. The other option is NAS, aka, Network Attached Storage. There are at least two basic types, NAS that is pure storage, and NAS that has server capabilities. I've had good luck with Synology products. My current config holds about 16 Terabytes, with a "one disc tolerance" RAID config - which means one drive can completely fail, with zero data loss. The trick is to replace a failed drive immediately, then all is well. Some might choose two or even more, disc tolerance. Then two (or more) drives can fail completely, with no data loss. Of course you lose storage capacity when you dedicate drives to failure tolerance. My philosophy with one disc tolerance, banks on the notion having two drives fail at the same time, is unlikely. I'm more concerned the entire NAS system could err out, trashing the entire server...which... Brings us back to Cloud services, where redundancy is so high, unless someone takes out the entire data center somehow, your data will likely be safe for generations to come. Where... needing 8TB a MONTH... dude, I'd go with a Cloud service, assuming there's a business behind all that data. If you're generating that much data and it's not due to business... well, either way, you'll be spending money on either NAS or a Cloud, to manage it all. Ideally, you do both. Then, you have local access to your data, as well as Cloud back-up. None of this is cheap. Not at all! But, gone are the days of Pendaflex, folders, sleeves and filing cabinets and boxes as the way to store "data". Which, do that too if it applies! Fwiw, most all major companies, send their hardcopies for storage, in facilities that are deep underground. So, it's nice to know, that if some hackers trashed the digital realm of all data... somewhere inside the Earth, they likely will be able to dig up your debt and other accountability records to keep you on the hook - no Mr Robot season one scenarios in real life. ;)
@@FRACTUREDVISIONmusic thank you for all the info I really appreciate it I'm going to look into that raid system and see if I can work something out. I used to have a Drobo system but it crashed on me and then the system was too old to get firmware updates and my data is trapped on there right now so I don't want to go that route ever again and after that I just started going with just straight hard drives so I'm going to look into that Synology system that you mentioned and see what it can do and how much it's going to cost me. Also if you have a cloud service that you recommend send me the name.
@@TodayIFeelLike Good luck, in a good way! Sorry I cannot offer anything useful for Cloud services. I never ended up needing it as I retired (well, became disabled, same idea) before digital photo storage became a problem. With NAS, you can get a basic set up, say with 4 hard drives, with one disc fault tolerance. Then, you can add to rig with slave enclosures to expand the storage when needed. My rig has 9 discs total, for that 16TB. It cost I' guessing all together about 3 grandish. In your case, even with my rig, you'd run out of space in two to three months! So, looks like Cloud would make more sense for you...though I honestly haven't priced it out. Just seems, it has to be cheaper than buying hardware and expanding endlessly. If I were in your situation, I might do an NAS to store recent files for easy access. But, also migrate it to a Cloud for longer term and greater capacity storage. Again, if it's for business, it's a no brainer, as you budget to keep your data safe. If it's a hobby, then it's a matter of how much you can afford to maintain that amount of data safety. In the end, always remember - it's not if a hard drive will fail, but when. Even a hard drive set on a shelf in a climate controlled room, can freeze up over time and become useless. Don't count on data recovery, as it far cheaper to pay for safe storage than counting on recovery efforts if a drive fails - especially a big phat mega TB drive.
@@TodayIFeelLike Sorry for another reply... something maybe to look into is this newish M-Disc blu-ray tech. You can store I believe up to 100GB per disc, and they supposedly will last for over 1000 years... Not cheap either, especially at 10 disks per terabyte. That's 80 disks a month for you! The burners aren't expensive at least. I got one, top rated for like $129. I haven't used it for M-Disc burning, but I might at some point for some things. Right now I bought it mostly so I can play back DVDs and Blu-rays on my Windows Mac, since Apple computers dropped optical drives long ago now. At any rate, it's something else to consider.
