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Techies, what's your personal data storage setup (photos, music, movies, docs) and what do you recommend everyone should be using? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Most people realize too late that they didn't have backups of their data or don't realize they can easily setup their own media servers at home. What do you use and suggest? Everything from beginner tech knowledge to advance. TIA

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

OWC Express 4M2 with four 8TB m.2 chips raided for 24TB of lightning fast storage for media. And a Synology DS1522+ with expansion bay for 96TB of storage for backups plus more media (plex library to stream to home theater). Additional backups to 8TB SSDs for the builtin storage of my main machine. This is somewhat excessive, not what I recommend for most users, but definitely right for my use.

Everyone should have minimum two backups. Ideally three with one of them being offsite in case of disaster such as fire.

[–] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Offsite backup is not optional for anything important. It's worth paying for AWS or literally any other online storage solution for that copy. You don't want a natural disaster to lead to the loss of all your life's photos for example.

I also personally don't recommend doing your own software for anything related to backups, you can't test edge cases easily and it could easily lead to loss of data. I once used an app that attempted to manage its own backups delete it's online backup when it lost its local data as it attempted to back up the blank local data.