Tired of Losing Your Data? Backup Solutions Using DAS

I want to just not have back up since im just setting one of these for pc steam libraries

I’m confused.

"JBOD " cracked me the F up! I'm sitting here, with stacks of hard drives on the shelf behind my screen. 🤣🤣🤣

In my defense, I'm watching your & many other's videos in preparation to remedy that.

I think you meant to say FreeFileSync, not FreeSync. 🙂

Hello, would you know if there is a way to Auto shut down a DAS when it is plugged into a UPS. I own a Thunderbay 8 DAS. Thanks.

What a great summary! So many people ask me about my backups and think it is a lot, but isn't!

What is on the top of his laptop?

Ok great video but why on earth are these things so expensive? Costs more than my PC… I was shocked.

The safest and by far the cheapest way to store and archive big amounts of data are LTO tapes. With LTO-9 you can store 18TB of data in a single $50 LTO tape. There is absolutely nothing that beats that.

Can you upgrade the internal drives to larger capacity drives (ie buying the 48tb g-raid shuttle 8 and swapping 1 or more drives for 12tb or bigger drives)?

So this is DAS, and not NAS? Seems similar though. Sorry, beginner here. Thank you!

I wanna store my dadda

Absolutely love the concept of Irys! Pay once, store forever—no more worrying about monthly fees or unexpected deletions. Finally, a solution that guarantees data remains accessible and secure for eternity. With Irys, forever truly means forever.

I have lost data in the past even when using a NAS, the main issue i have with these raid solutions is the file format, trying to recover from a hardware failure such as the NAS box dieing, if you have large amounts of data cloud services are great until you need to get that data back, very slow process unless they can send you a disk of your data.

I opt for a simple solution now, i have an old pc that i have 3 drives installed, 1 is the OS drive, 2nd drive is my data drive, 3rd is the backup drive, each night windows runs a batch file that transfers data from data drive to backup drive, yes i have no versioning, maybe i could solve this with soft software, i could run an online service also, or maybe an additional drive that i disconnect from the system and store elsewhere.

For me this mirror back up works well, if a drive fails i simply replace it, no configuring software or issues with a raid array.

What the best solution for lots of movies and TV shows. I both download from Apple and rip some. I have had them all on externals but I do kind of keep running out of room, I now have a 16 TB external from a 5 TB external, not sure if I really need anything more. My last one started to fail after 10 years so I had to re rip everything.

I have a rookie question, is the RAID version that provides a parity function helpful if one is learning to code or working as a programmer?

Here's the problem with these boxes, what if the box fails? if i use raid 1 and just do a mirror can I take a drive, plug it directly into my computer and get the files? I don't think I can. are there any options that actually allow for that? I just want redundancy, and part of that is not relying on ONE box, and i shouldn't have to get more than 1 box just to make that happen...

I only mirror.

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Awesome, thank you sir :)

Please, please stop believing that raid allows you to replace a drive and it will magically rebuild with no data loss. I theory it should work that way, but in reality it rarely does. Most drive failures is due to age and the process of rebuilding a new drive puts so much stress on the remaining drives that some of them very commonly fails too, leaving you stranded.

I have used OWC Thunderbay products for years but starting in 2022 the reliability and customer service has really taken a large dive. They have also now moved to a 100 dollar a year subscription for the software. This was not announced but customers were left to face a “upgrade your software licence” after updating our OS.

Last year clients were all forced to upgrade the software when OS X upgraded. This was explained as a requirement due to the new security model. It seemed understandable but the upgrade also seemed to introduce multiple kernel panics and constant reboots. This continued regularly for 9 months until Apple released an upgrade in June. The product still causes kernel panics after a cold boot and must be unplugged. Yes, I have spent many hours troubleshooting with the company. This year after upgrading my OSX I was faced with a “pay for licence” screen and I am unable to access the software. I can't even uninstall the software because it is locked behind the upgrade paywall. I am using the pro version of the software and this is how they support professional software, a paywall screen to get back into the software once you upgrade OSX.

I am looking at other options now.

A NAS is not a backup dummy.

I looked into RAID. It is just too complicated for my small pea brain. Instead I have Three 20TB external My Book drives plugged into my laptop labeled Drive-D, Drive-E, Drive-F. All my data is stored onto Drive-D. I use a backup program called "FreeFileSync" which mirrors Drive-D to Drive-E & Drive-F

We have four 18 TB HDD in desktop PC that we mirror copy. Offers 36 TB of true storage and 36 TB backup for about $1000. Have another copy in safe just incase. Haven't found a less expensive option for 100+ TB. So you know Backblaze can't offer unlimited FREE cloud storage unless selling your data.

Backing up "to the cloud" is not a reasonable option for some. Cloud storage at present is prohibitive for 100TBs of data. Not only would it take months to upload, but the storage cost is astronomical. By 2030, that might be a viable option, but not 2023.

I don't get all this! Wish someone could help me set up some sort of backup that is easy to understand.

I was recently told that the 4TB Sandisk drive I bought for backing up is a BAD choice because SSD drives need to be powered on a regular basis to work. If you disconnect them and store them unpowered, they will fail. Can you please comment on this?

I use a 16TB external x 2 for time machines AND BACKBLAZE!

Even if you don't go the NAS route (which is not for everyone, especially those who shoot for fun/hobby/pleasure) at least get two hard drives for backups (and keep one off-site somewhere, and the other one can be on-site or offsite). But you want at least one copy off site and ideally ,two backups of some sort. (The 3-2-1 plan is best but at least a backup offsite is a start to no backup at all). I mean you can get 4TB external HDDs for $100. It's a small "investment" in protecting your priceless photos.

Awesome & Thanks :)

Is there an enclosure you recommend for JBOD?

I'm so in love with Backblaze. I have backed up 20TB for only $7/mo. The backup runs automatically in the background

Thank you for this video. This storage is what I am looking at now, trying to figure how to go about it and what may be the best option for me. This video and all the information it provides is quite helpful. Again, thank you.

All over my head.

had a das configured in RAID - striped across all disks - lost two disks before I could replace the initial failed drive and LOST THE ENTIRE ARRAY !! I now use JBOD WITH NIGHTLY MIRRORING ACROSS THREE DRIVES ARRAYS AND BACKBLAZE FOR ALL DRIVES.

Because we live in an era where botched OS updates are sent out to brick your machine or make you lose your data...
(1) Prepare a bootable USB stick with your favourite Cloning software, e.g. Clonezilla
(2) Boot and clone your Windows or Mac OS SSD to an external SSD (B&H sells all the external gear + genuine Samsung SSD or nVme).
(3) Now perform your Windows or Mac OS update
(4) If botched update, swap the drives out. Problem solved. TURN OFF update for a month.

So how do these actually connect to the computer? USB? Thunderbolt? Usb-c? Speed/advantages/disadvantages vs NAS?