best/most reliable storeage hardware, advice please

zagubov

Online backups have limited size but the free ones I'd recommend (in decreasing order of size)

adrive 50Gb
hubic 25Gb
MEGA 50Gb
pCloud 10Gb
Box 10 Gb

You absolutely can't have too many!

happyhero

I contacted Samsung themselves today and asked about using a SSD drive on a Samsung TV but very disapointed in their tech help, these guys seem to know nothing and give you flow chart answers. He asked for all model numbers and then said I need a hard drive with a minimum spindle speed of bla bla bla. I said but I just quoted you a solid state drive...he had to find out what that was and then told me it would not work as it says they are only for PC. I had no confidence in the guy at all by the end.

What you really want is some geek who can not only answer your questions but tell you the best way to achieve what you want to do, this guy was a long way from that...so who do you ask.

I would have thought any normal hard drive would work on a TV short of it being too slow to cope with recordings etc. But I would be buying one and taking risk that it would work at the moment.

I go strongly with having a cloud backup and a drive backup though. Seems like backing up should be easier though and not so much work backing up double all the time.

bsod

hard disks are good for backups, flash drives (or sd-cards if supported) are good for carrying about and sticking into tv's.

don't assume that any hard disk drive will work on any tv (if you want to know what is supported, the manual is where the geeks would look for the answer, it's far more reliable than an internet forum or a support line) or that cloud storage/ssd's are more reliable than a physical hard disks or the best place for backups, they aren't.

Backing up to a hard disk, is easy, cheap, secure, and fast, use macrium

Before you upload anything to 'the cloud', consider: where is it going, who has access to it now and in the future and what could they do with it, how secure is it (assume it isn't), and why are they letting you use it.

GunJack

bsod wrote: »

Before you upload anything to 'the cloud', consider: where is it going, who has access to it now and in the future and what could they do with it, how secure is it (assume it isn't), and why are they letting you use it.

This is something that, sadly IMHO, not enough people consider these days as cloud (it's basically just someone else's computer) has become popular.....I like keeping MY backups of MY data on MY hardware, thanks

happyhero

I contacted Samsung themselves today and asked about using a SSD drive on a Samsung TV but very disapointed in their tech help, these guys seem to know nothing and give you flow chart answers. He asked for all model numbers and then said I need a hard drive with a minimum spindle speed of bla bla bla. I said but I just quoted you a solid state drive...he had to find out what that was and then told me it would not work as it says they are only for PC. I had no confidence in the guy at all by the end.

What you really want is some geek who can not only answer your questions but tell you the best way to achieve what you want to do, this guy was a long way from that...so who do you ask.

I would have thought any normal hard drive would work on a TV short of it being too slow to cope with recordings etc. But if I bought a SSD I would be buying one and taking risk that it would work at the moment.

I go strongly with having a cloud backup and a drive backup though, seems the best combination. Seems like backing up should be easier though and not so much work backing up double all the time.

I want to be able to plug it into my families TV's too and show them some of my stuff....pics and videos etc. (they have Samsung Smart TV's too).

jshm2

You're going about this the wrong way. What you need is a NAS drive plugged into your home router. Nothing you do on your TV is every going to be "faster" than a hard drive can handle.

Also, if all you need is around 100GB then any 250GB ( always better to have a little more than you need) External Drive from Argos or anywhere else will do. You will only be wasting money buying a 250GB SSD as your TV will not be using that speed. I have done setups where people have just used 128GB USB flash drives for their TV storage without issues.

Also, Cloud backup will not work on your TV. You will need to manually backup the drive to the Cloud if you go for that option. Also, Some NAS manufacturers give a few gig free Cloud backup storage too.

DigForVictory

My handbag backup is a 1TB Seagate portable. I treat it like a big memory stick. I've it's twin at the office, and a 4TB at home my offspring don't know about. I've then got a jug of memory sticks & a drawer of CDs & DVDs.

Do Not Trust One Thing. Ever.

If a backup is genuinely wanted, hold that data across at least three platforms & if it's Your Data, why are you trusting some stranger in the cloud with it?

Best is not one but many if you end up with a paper notebook detailing which has what on it? It's how I track which USB has which season of Thrones or whatever.

To each their own system, but duplicate, test & don't trust.