- #Backblaze backup external drive archive#
- #Backblaze backup external drive full#
- #Backblaze backup external drive professional#
The second-worst drive model in Backblaze's statistics was another Seagate drive, the 14TB ST1400NM0138 drive saw an AFR of 6.23% The third worst model is HGST's 4TB HUH728080ALE604, with an annualized failure rate of 4.33%.īackblaze's results could be interpreted as meaning that bigger HDDs tend to fail less often than smaller HDDs, but there are a number of caveats here. Its 12TB Seagate ST12000NM0007 saw 2,023 failures, ending up with the greatest Average Failure Rate (AFR) at 7.46% and an average lifetime of just one year and six months. For one, we see that Seagate is the king of drive failures. (Image credit: Backblaze)īackblaze noted some trends in its evaluation, and the table itself gives us some interesting data points.
#Backblaze backup external drive archive#
I also make BD-XL Blu-ray archive discs of photos, which serve as a read only backup that is probably a lot more durable than my local hard drive copy.Backblaze analyzed Annualized Failure Rates (AFR) on drives manufactured by HGST (7 models), Seagate (13 models), Toshiba (7 models), and WDC (3 models). For me this is cheaper than the hardware and power costs to run that hardware. My personal photo backup is to keep photos in one cloud,and make backups locally and into another cloud.
Backblaze is a great product, and it is truly unlimited, but it’s meant for backing up your desktop computer with whatever storage you have there. The thing with $7 backblaze is that you have 30 days from the last backup of a file to restore that file, and with 6TB it may not even be possible to restore everything within a month. It’s funny that people are willing to invest a small fortune in a business/hobby, but as soon as it comes to backups they’re cheap.Īs others have said, something like Arq with Wasabi or Backblaze B2 will serve him well, but also cost more.
#Backblaze backup external drive professional#
Your friend has 6TB, so that tells me he’s either a professional or a serious hobbyist.
My entire family photo album, going back to 2003 (for digital photos) is around 3TB, and we shoot on average 10k-15k photos per year.
You want something that is there should the cloud provider cut you off, or in case the internet goes down. This serves several purposes: First, speed. Regularly make a second backup locally, either on a NAS or on the external HDDs.
#Backblaze backup external drive full#
You don't need to do a full restore, testing it with some random small part of the files should be sufficient. Once the initial upload is done (which will take a while with 6TB), you should test whether you can restore it, ideally to another computer. Get a proper backup tool, such as BorgBackup, Duplicati, Kopia, restic, etc. I think the current price is around $5/TB. Get storage space at a reputable cloud provider, such as Backblaze B2, Wasabi, Google or Amazon. That way, you have everything in one place and don't have to worry about plugging in your drives to do backups. Get a decent workstation with internal disks or a NAS instead of random external hard drives. Both warrant investing in a robust backup solution. With 6TB, your friend is either a serious amateur or a professional. They all have issues, ranging from poor customer support to limiting backup retention to not actually being unlimited. I wouldn't recommend any of these cheap consumer "unlimited" backup solutions.
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