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Have you ever had bad experiences with a specific brand?
MAXTOR. I hold grudges against products. #neverdell #nevermaxtor
Have you ever lost everything, or at least some important stuff?
Yeah, but it's fair to say it was at least significantly my fault for not having triple redundancy in order to save a few dollars. Oops. It sucks that some great content was lost before it was safely TWICE backed up, but those are the breaks.
Storage is so cheap these days. Spend what you need to, guys. For memory collectors, it's well worth it. I'm loving life in the present, but really enjoy revisiting old times.
I have lost several Seagate and Toshiba HDDs over the years. I never buy them. WD and Hitachi (HGST) have been stellar. A couple of WD crashed but not before saving the files.
I am about to build a NAS for extra safety. Keep in mind that Hard DIsks and SSDs if left untouched for years can suffer data loss. HDDs get demagnetized and Ssds lose their charge.For super long term storage only Blu-Ray is a safe bet.
Just on my main hard drive my collection only Takes up 100gb i have a few back ups on external drives i am not sure how People are able to use up 19 terrabites on this.
Yes, 19TB are out of this world. 😄 I save anything possible, and reached a little over 3TB.
I have lost several Seagate and Toshiba HDDs over the years. I never buy them. WD and Hitachi (HGST) have been stellar. A couple of WD crashed but not before saving the files.
I am about to build a NAS for extra safety. Keep in mind that Hard DIsks and SSDs if left untouched for years can suffer data loss. HDDs get demagnetized and Ssds lose their charge. For super long term storage only Blu-Ray is a safe bet.
Excellent post!! I didn't know that about SSD data loss, so I appreciate that tip and will operate accordingly.
Seagate bought Maxtor. They simply cannot be trusted. I used to buy Maxtors like crazy and by the time I learned they were trash, so much of my collection was wrapped up in them I felt like an absolute fool.
WD and Toshiba external drives have been 100% for me. I travel a lot with them in my backpack and they've proven incredibly durable, but of course everything has 2+ backups these days, so even if I damage one, all the data is saved somewhere else. I recently added a Samsung SSD and I'm pleased with its speed so far. The SSD drive is the same length and width of a credit card and is about 7 cards in thickness/height.
Yall making me feel like an absolute dilettante. Stored a few videos on my phone and just shared the good ones on my private pornhub. Phones dead and ph is down so im left with a few links untill those are eventually dead too
Yall making me feel like an absolute dilettante. Stored a few videos on my phone and just shared the good ones on my private pornhub. Phones dead and ph is down so im left with a few links untill those are eventually dead too
Sad to hear that ☹️
I lost all my fbb stuff (esp from madhub) once I moved from my pc to a laptop and left home. The PC went into storage and then to recycling. It was my own fault for not transferring the data. Had to create my collection from scratch. I also lost the madhub url for a long time, so my new collection was very limited. Nowadays my collection is like 50 GBS on mobile, 200 GBS on my laptop and 300 GBS on my external HDD.
Here are some videos on best practices for keeping digital data secure. I definitely don't meet these criteria, but I guess they're aspirational goals.
I have an 8TB G-Raid I yoinked from an old job. It currently houses my collection (around 3 TB) but also hosts most of my games since at the moment I only have a 250GB SSD on board. As I've mentioned before I've lost a couple of iterations of hard drives in the past so it's likely my collection would be 2x-3x larger. There's sensitive/HQ stuff on there that I also have backed up on two different Rugged Lacie's, and a few of things I access from my phone I have stored on Google Drive or Dropbox.
I used to have a series of DVDs but I think they may have been accidentally thrown out when I moved. It was not before I migrated most of that content on to an external HD. I had three over the years. Two Seagate 2TB and 1 WD. The WD sucked for me but it died within a month. The first Seagate died on me but that was my fault because I dropped it while it was still mounted to my computer (stupid me, I know). My current drive is half full which I need to cull through because I am quite sure there are duplicate files on there. The drive needs some serious reorganization and even then, I may look into having another storage option (backup the backup). I don't use and cloud services to store this stuff (I am not looking at this outside of home). I mainly use cloud storage for other projects that I work on so I can have access when I am not near my computer. At the moment, I am also limiting how much I leave on the computer because it is not working as well and I don't want another data loss should anything happens. In total, I have around close to 1TB of content.
I use the amazing software designed for organising porn collections, but for muscle.
https://github.com/stashapp/stash
The app is backed by a 45TB NAS with a cluster of Proxmox nodes as my computer layer. Stash is configured to mount my storage shares over NFS and provides a really nice layer for an organised library.
I use 'Performers' as Athletes / People, 'Scenes' for general videos (plus tagging) and images for images.
It's been an amazing step to keeping things in order.
Recently my hard dříve died i thought i had backed everything up but turns out i Only backed up a small fraction of my collection Damm.
I understand your feelings perfectly.
I have lost all my photos, which were more valuable than my female muscles stuff.
Built a NAS with a RAID setup up a few years ago for my TV and movies and while I was at it threw on my "collection" (which was strewn about on several different HD's and computers from the years and years of collecting) Supposedly I can withstand 1 HD fail and will still be about to reconstruct everything. I use Emby to stream to my phone, tablet or PC if I want.
Pro tip for anyone looking to build a NAS. External HD's are cheaper than internals but guess what's inside an external HD. Just a regular internal HD. I think it was WD drives that were the easiest to do this with. I built my NAS doing that . It was called 'Shucking' the drive. 4 8tb drives on an Unraid server.
Raid/Nas/Das/HDDs/SSDs/internal/external/cloud
Just out of curiosity, what do you do to prevent data loss?
Admiral_bates' huge 19TB collection thread inspired this one.
Have you ever had bad experiences with a specific brand?
Have you ever lost everything, or at least some important stuff?
Do you have any suggestions to help others?
I use two external HDDs today (Seagate and Toshiba), but I had some unpleasant surprises in my prime years.
Cloud wasn't a thing back then, and I was too lazy to burn files to DVDs.
Two Maxtor internal HDDs (they fell like flies), and an external one failed in a brief period of time.
The external drive was a TrekStor, which was a pretty unreliable manufacturer.
I lost everything, personal files and female muscles stuff. 😢
Cloud is pretty expensive and offers too little space.
I'm curious to hear your thoughts.