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Backup with Efficiency

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Chura

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Hi,

I have 30 1TB drives (business faildown and bought this for 300$ a year ago).
I'm looking for a way to use the to backup things (Raw images, GoPro videos. document are on GDrive so i'm safe)

I taught maybe buy a SATA docking station such as :
http://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-Sata-HDD-Docking-Station/dp/B0012Z3MKW
(or maybe cheaper from DX ?)

that way the disks are set aside and I'll manage whats on them with XLS or something.

1. Does HDD that sit aside disconnected may fail ?
2. I guess its the most effeicent way, but is there something close that will have this HDD's online ? (some storage the power off HDD unless used ?)
3. Does this docking station from DX worth anything ?

Thanks!
 
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I take it English is not your first language.

Put the 30 hard drives in ESD baggies, so they wont fail out side of the dock.

You may want to find a way to touch the metal top of the hard drive to ground before putting it into the dock, to prevent esd zaps. holding the hard drive in your hand and touching any grounded metal on the pc case would work, or buy a grounded esd mat.
 
Nice idea, i'll check ebay for this baggies.

But is it the right thing to do ? What the efficient way of having this HDD online ? (Won't spin = no power draw = same as sitting in baggies ?)

Thanks!
 
You have 30x1TB the most efficient thing to do is probably sell the for $30-50 each depending on make/model and then lets assume you get $30x30 = 900$. Now go get some 3 or 4TB drives wherever the 'sweet' price is for the drives/Tb at the time, and spend your $900 on 3-5 discs. Depending on how much space you need, if you want torun RAID1 or RAID10 you may even have some $ leftover.

MUCH easier to manage 3-5 larger, newer discs + you get a warranty, less power requirements and it doesn't sound like you're that familiar with using a NAS, external enclosure, or getting them to run at the same time so this is by far the easiest, but also probably time consuming things to do.

In the end 3-5 discs vs 30 will save you power too :)
 
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