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I am a freelance animator. I am starting to amass a huge pile of external hard drives now that all of my projects have gone HD. I have about 10TB in storage going on right now, that means I have about 5TB of data, all master project files with raw media, and it is all on 1 set of drives, then mirrored onto a second set, making 10TB total. Obviously I have let this go for too long and now have alot of work ahead of me.
So my questions is this… I want to find a storage/backup solution that will handle all of my current 10TB and allow for up to about 30TB(maybe more?) over the next 2 years. I am not sure about Tape backups as they seem so archaic, but is this the best solution? Can I buy a swappable raid drive and just buy multiple disks for it? Obviously something like Blu-Ray backups are way too small, what are my options and what is best long term?
note: I do need to access the files once or twice a year, but not usually more than that, so I need something that I can ignore for a few months at a time, but can also use without worrying about wearing it out.
So my questions is this… I want to find a storage/backup solution that will handle all of my current 10TB and allow for up to about 30TB(maybe more?) over the next 2 years. I am not sure about Tape backups as they seem so archaic, but is this the best solution? Can I buy a swappable raid drive and just buy multiple disks for it? Obviously something like Blu-Ray backups are way too small, what are my options and what is best long term?
note: I do need to access the files once or twice a year, but not usually more than that, so I need something that I can ignore for a few months at a time, but can also use without worrying about wearing it out.
