Hey everyone, I'm working on a documentary. We currently have about 3tb of footage, and we would like to have a cloud backup plan as an extra backup for some time.
I stumbled upon this idrive cloud and wondered if anyone has already used it, maybe for this kind of purpose?

It says 10TB of storage for 4.87$ for the first year, then 99.5$, is it reliable and fast enough to upload, store and read footage?
Thanks!

I tried copying a 6GB file to a USB stick the other day and got a "file too large" error, even though the drive had plenty of space left. Turns out it was formatted as FAT32.

I know exFAT would solve the problem, but I sometimes use my USB drives with older computers and other devices, so I'm not sure if it's worth switching all of them over.

What do you guys usually use? Do you just go with exFAT, or do you still use FAT32 for devices that don't support newer formats?

asking for my SO. she does cancer research and has tons of data like several external hard drives worth of data that she stores to and backs up to. these are like the typical western digital or whatever store brand that she bought and also flash drives where she stores the data. she's not tech savvy but I have a decent understanding of tech but not in this way. the hard drives themselves are older. not sure what type she's too scared of me looking at them or messing with them since its years and years of data lol.

my question is for someone who likely has several hundreds if not thousands of gigabytes of data that needs to be stored safely and not get corrupt or destroyed what is the best way. ideally it would be fast storage. she has a Mac with one of the M4 chips if that matters. cloud storage is off the books though.

thanks

I am a complete idiot when it comes to storage, so please forgive me :( Not sure if any of this information is relevant or not, but I'll list out things I think might be:

I have a MacOS Tahoe Laptop, Version 26.5.1. It has an Apple M4 Max chip. 36GB memory. 1TB of storage, but it's running out quickly.

I've been editing on Davinci Resolve Studio. Not usually doing any crazy VFX. I don't plan to keep it on the external drive.

I'm looking for an external hard drive to keep footage on, preferably no less than 1TB.

I've heard that an SSD is preferable to an HDD for a laptop.

I would like to stay under $350 dollars, but I'll keep some wiggle room if it means the difference between good hard drive and bad hard drive.

It's not too important to me whether Windows compatible or not.

My recent tiny external hard drive (or maybe recent microSDs?) have been formating my files as exFAT. Not sure what that means exactly or if it's relevant at all.

Feel free to ask questions if I didn't give enough info. I will try my best.

Buenas Gente,
Os pongo en contexto, compre dos discos duros de 4TB de la marca seagate, uno de ellos a las 5 meses empezo a dar errores de lectura y escritura y murio, tramite la garantia de el y me mandaron un disco duro reacondicionado, al irle a enchufar ni funcionaba, sonaba un ruido raro y poco mas..., tramito la garantia del nuevo y me han mandado un nuevo disco duro, que lleva puesto en mi servidor 12h y ya esta dando fallos de lectura y escritura..... como puede ser posible esto!?

Does "bit rot" occur frequently in 2.5" HDDs? I keep an external 2.5" HDD and connect it to my PC once a year to check it with CrystalDiskInfo, then I disconnect it from the USB port. Is it necessary to run any other tests besides CrystalDiskInfo?

I bought a seagate 6 terabyte hard drive and a lsi 9271-8i for my home computer to try and get some cheap storage I have the drive hooked up with a molex spit sas cable to the first port of the controller and the P1 labels cable on the splitter, I only have one drive I want to use,
My issue is I went into bios and created a virtual disk for the drive and everytime I boot it it blue screens my pc, even when I force load to my windows M.2 drive
I’ve looked into drivers, storcli, I’ve chat gpt’d the whole thing and it just goes in loops I need help to try and use this drive, 100$ has turned into 200$ quickly and it could all be for nothing

Update, I might have just fixed it, I’m initialising the virtual drive in the bios using the 9271-8i megaraid settings hopefully it will work

I have a 2.5" USB 3.0 external HDD containing many ZIP, RAR, 7Z, and EXE files. If the power in my home goes out while this drive is being read, will it cause file corruption or data loss?

EDIT: Done. Thanks for the help!

Hello!

I travel for work and fly a ton. I am also about to go on a couple-month long vacation to Japan then Switzerland.

I currently 2024 MacBook Air M3 with 256gb of storage and 16gb of ram.

I have downloaded a ton of movies/tv shows/books/research materials and I am out of space on my Mac which would be fine if I wasn't planning on using my DJI Osmo Pocket 4 to do some video shooting and editing as well so will definitely need some more space...how much more, I am not sure. I am thinking at least 250gb.

From what I understand, SSD is the better option for storing the DJI footage and editing from it while an HDD is the better option for storing the media (movies/tv/books).

So which would be the better option? I plan to use it on the plane as well. I'm assuming SSD but don't want to just buy one without consulting people way more knowledgeable than myself on it. Any specific recs? I fly out for 3 months on Tuesday so I have been putting this off...

The article explains that rising AI data center demand is causing a global NAND flash shortage, pushing SSD prices up dramatically. With supply remaining limited, prices may continue rising through 2027, making storage upgrades increasingly expensive for consumers.

Hi,

I'm looking for an enclosure and an 8TB SSD for my Thunderbolt 5 Mac.
I'm interested in the Orico X50 Pro and the brand claims that it can accept SSD's up to 8TB.

The problem is that most, if not all of those enclosures, only accept one-sided ssd's.
And the lack of room is understandable since they want the thermal pad to be flush with the box itself.

The thing is, I can't seem to find any one-sided 8TB ssd's anywhere.

Am I searching wrong or is it just that they advertise storage capacities that are just not available due to the limitations of the enclosures?
If there is no one-sided 8TB SSD's, which enclosure would accommodate 2 sided ones?

I've searched for more than 24h and for the life of me, I can't seem to find a way to get an 8TB system that would run at full speed (around 6000MB/s).

Your solutions or alternatives would be really appreciated. I feel like I'm stuck on something that should be expensive but still basic.

1) For external 2.5" HDDs, the brand and quality of the Micro-B cable influence the durability, lifespan, and performance of both the enclosure and the hard drive itself.

2) Regarding software such as CrystalDiskInfo, SeaTools, Kitfox, HD Sentinel, and HD Tune Pro—all of which analyze HDD health—does the accuracy and nature of these health assessments vary significantly between them, or are they essentially the same? Is it necessary to test using two or more of these programs?

I have these two hard drives. It works when I put it in PS3. but it's mot being detected by the PC.

These are 2.5 HDD I got from old laptops. I already tried tried using a powered enclosure but still no luck. That enclosure works with another drive.

It only really works if I put it in a PS3.

I'm new to this. thank you.

SOLVED

Thank you everyone for your help.

It works now. I did disk management but for some reason it shows up now. I'm using a powered enclosure. 🙏

My external ssd is failing, backed up 90% of it and now looking to replace it.

The Ramsta SSD S800 was just recommended to us by my uncle as a replacement for the Seagate Backup Plus Slim and it seems like I have to replace that too now. Both drives seems to have lasted 2 years.

I used both external drives as a second storage for games, heavy recordings, programs and resources since my main disk only has 50GB free space left.

I no longer move my laptop from place to place so interrupting the spinning disk doesn't seem like an issue, though there is a tsunami predicted to happen in Nov. 5 in my country, so a sudden power loss might affect it. Unsure with SSDs since they seem to have a life and write limit.

Which type of drive would best fit my use case and would last quite long?

My friends and I are looking into storing each other's very important documents and having distributed infrastructure for resiliency. For instance I store my vault which contains an encrypted copy of my passwords vault, medical records, digital birth certificate, etc. This is then zfs replicated via TrueNAS over a site-to-site VPN to a identical machine at my parents house.

I was inspired by a talk to increase preparedness with my closest circle of friend in the event something happens to one of us. Could be as simple as one of our houses catch on fire and losing everything. We could then access our info off of other people's servers. This wouldn't be much data (a few GB at most, all pdf/txt really) but not allowing the person that's hosting to have direct access would be neat. Would I just have to look at turning some old PC's into small TrueNAS servers and setting up all my friends' places (We are all generally tech savy)?

On the other side of this I want to look at having shared access to the data in emergencies. Let's say something was to happen and my spouse medically and my parents need access to records or info. They could go to my friends and say we need access to X. If enough of them say yes then they could use Shamir’s Secret Sharing to access my vault and get into it. There is also the side of while I am trusting my friends enough that this would work. In the event someone is no longer in this group or passes we can revoke/delete their vault/access. Maybe having a master account that requires SSS to get into?

This is something I want to look into and see how it would look and find security concerns from outside viewers before implementing.

Accidentally put it in the wrong way

I just got a brand new WD elements desktop 12TB external Hard Drive to back up my synology NAS , but before doing that I want to run a extended smart test on it to make sure it is good.

I downloaded WD Kitfox and run extended device self test (I know wd elements is not officially supported but it is detected in the software plus WD doesn't offer any other diagnostic tools for it) , and now it is stuck at 10% progress for an hour now , should I keep it running or abort the test ? Also is there any software that can do extended smart test ?

I have a Micro-B cable from the brand Orico. If I use this cable with a generic 2.5" external HDD enclosure and a 2.5" HDD, will it cause any issues with data transfer just because the brands are different?

The article argues that all-flash NAS offers significant advantages in speed, low noise, and compact size, but high SSD costs make it difficult to justify for many users. HDDs remain more cost-effective for high-capacity storage, making hybrid NAS setups that combine SSDs and HDDs a more practical choice for most users.

I'm not sure if this is real, this is a marketplace guy selling bunch of random leftover crap, he buys like boxes fill of old office mouses and sells them, many things he has lookegit and he's been on the marketplace for 5 years only 5 stars. So wondering, can this be real?

Does anyone have a solution to connecting a WD My Passport to a MacBook Pro M5? I'm on the line with a WD Virtual Assistant representative for the second time in a month and not getting anywhere.

Thanks in advance!!!