For backup or sync like google drive/onedrive?

I'm old school too and would go for a couple of 2TB SSD drives, Transcend, WD or Sandisk.
Quite affordable these days and pretty fast.

Personal files just stick to traditional NAS/HDD setup.

Cloud are for critical files that need the nine nines redundancy.

if poor buy hdd

if want security go for cloud

One drive it's much adorable but it doesn't have googles photo capability. I'm still waiting.

Yes, but I back up all my important data (especially patient data) daily anyway.

Syncing also means if you accidentally delete your file, the backup will be deleted too right?

For starters, the cloud back up should not be your only back up. So don't rely on it 100%

If you scared company sell your data, just make sure its encrypted before storage.

For 2TB, can go up to 2k depending on the level of the problem. RM600 is only for problem like partition failure. If other problem like disk damage, head damage, etc. The cost is higher.

External SSDs are good if you plug them in often, even if they hit their write threshold you should still be able to read from it. However as a long term back up, they are a very bad solution. If you keep an external SSD unplugged for a long time, the loss of charge over time will lead to data corruption. SSDs are essentially RAM, they have mechanisms to hold the charge longer, but its not indefinite. SLC based ssds can retain data longer (~10 years), but MLC/QLC might only have a span of 1-2 years, your mileage will vary.

You have the means to do a good back up strategy, so my advice is you do a simple set up.

[pc/laptop/external ssd] ---> [NAS (e.g. Synology)] ----> [Cloud backup]

For your NAS, get a 2-4 bay and make sure its mirrored. You'll only have 1/2 capacity of your drives but you will be very resilient against hardware failures. Any drive fail, you can just buy a new one to plug back in to rebuild.

Then for cloud backup, go with a service like backblaze.com which is 6USD/month/TB.

There are a lot of cheap shared cloud service on taobao you just need to look. The seller buy family pack and lease out. Costs like rm100 for 2tb a year.
Downside is you take the risk it ends before 1 year is up la.
So far I used 1 year and renewed already.

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Anyone has this problem with Googledrive that when you upload new file or update new file, it won't sync on the spot and when you access the file from other device, it is still the old file until certain hour or day.

I use it for backups... not syncs...

connect their S3 storage using mountainduck if your on windows..

for mobile i'm using BucketAnywhere

Do they have their own app for Windows and Mobile?

Can also backup all photos and videos in phone gallery like google photo?

maybe now they might have for mobile...

you can backup anything from your phone to the storage. of course it's not sync... it's manually you select what you want to copy over to the storage.

Yes. To go around this, my most important files would also be backed on GDrive. OneDrive usually for work files that's always updated.

One Drive = what I consider important such as work, personal etc.

GDrive = Files in one Drive that is important to have more softcopy backup

Buy new PC hardware and if also need to change SSD and everything, I would just login my windows account and sync it on the internet. Then I would have my basic files and personalization to start working immediately after syncing. Apps kena install sendiri lah.

Edit: I'm using Windows 11

This post has been edited by YamiBear: Aug 10 2024, 03:27 PM

Once selected, need to always do manual backup or it will auto backup?

G Drive since nowadays android phone no longer support microsd.
Windows laptop install GDrive app to sync.
200gb sub.

Just need to check last sync time to time.

Depends on how often you access upload your personal files. If once in a while then better of with cloud service as like other ktards said, external drive may fail & you will need 2 drives to be on the safe side.

Personally, I prefer cloud storage & as long you have decent stable Internet connection. Then u are ok, but mine is only 100gb basic package, so I can understand your reluctant to spend rm500 annually.

you dont need to guess

they DO use your data, not necessarily sell it, but use it to train AI

and meta is the worse, one of their product if you want to delete your data , there is a clause that says you can only delete it after they have used it to train their AI

This post has been edited by 15cm: Aug 10 2024, 10:50 PM