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backing up question

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dcninja

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I've got movies and tv shows on 2 x 2tb hard drives
i can get a 4tb usb 3.0 drive as a backup for my stuff in case it fails...

now I could always just download the files again.
i've never had a modern hard drive crash except for a bad batch of seagates that had firmware issues... the drives I have now have been running for 2-3 years with no issues.

should I spend the money on backup drives just for that or should I just not worry about it and save my money. I'm torn.

*already talked myself out of a video card upgrade due to the 580 I have since it can run any game out there still...
 
So far this year we have RMA'd three of the 25-30 drives we have. They certainly do fail. What's the cost of replacing the data (time, effort, $)?
 
Really, it's all about how much money your data is worth to you, only you will be able to decide that.

Don't count on your past luck, you could lose your data at any minute.
 
For over 9 years of my HTPC uasge I did not backup any of my recordings (and I certianly do not raid them in any way) however with 4TB drives going for $150 US on sale to me its time to start.

As for failures at work I RMA 10 to 20 drives (out of around 200) each year so drives definitley do fail. And these are real failures I thourogly test a drive before the RMA not ones that have just 1 reallocated sector. At home I have a bit of lucky (to have not lost a single recording). To reduce the chance of data loss I monitor the SMART on all drives and every single drive is rigorously tested before adding to my storage pool. On top of that I have replaced every drive in the original HTPC system over the years. That was mainly do to the HTPC growing and efffiecency. I mean replace a 7200 RPM 320 GB drive with a 5400 RPM 2TB that uses 1/2 the power..
 
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i guess for $160 bucks when I get the money it'd be worth it because 4tb is a lot to refind and download, I wouldn't know where to begin with what I currently have lol
 
Yeah back it up, its one thing to think you are not going to experience a failure, another thing for to happen, and then another thing to think you can just download it again, and then find out you can't because its too old, or you try and its missing files and all incomplete. Its so terribly simple and cheap to just get a drive(s) and duplicate it.
 
I have several TB of videos. I don't back up.

4TB of videos is about 2000 hours of video. That is 50 weeks of 40 hours of viewing.

The labor to get video to watch is so small that me having a copy on hard drives is not worthwhile.

Most of the videos have been watch once. Many never watched.

Important data - like personal and business records get backed up in several places.
 
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