A reader asked me what my preferred storage medium for local backups. I would have said I always do HDD but the options only mentioned optical disk drives (DVD, CD-R and CD+RW). My choice would be DVD but I really don’t like to use optical disks as back-up.
In any case, I wanted to throw the same question to my readers and do it via a poll.
What’s your preferred back-up solution at home. I know there are a lot of cloud storage options but let’s limit this one to local solutions.
- Optical Disk Drives
- External HDD
- NAS
- Others
- I don’t do backups
Go hit the comments and share your choices and let me know why.
2 disk synology for quick backup. For archive, i have a separate server running solaris 11 with 4x2TB disks being used by ZFS.
External HDDs ^^
I got this 160gb for around 5 years as of now. Then there’s a bunch of 1TB, 1.5TB for my movies, videos, pictures, documents, and other personal stuff.
I’m planning to get a NAS or a 3TB HDD once I have a budget for it.
for backup, i use:
1. 1TB seagate for all files
2. windows skydrive for photos and scanned government documents (birth cert,etc.)
3. mediafire.com for the same as #2, so that if one cloud service fails/goes out of business, iv another cloud storage to access my files