#GET BACKUP PRO 3 ARCHIVE#
This also had the advantage of having my entire archive of sessions stretching back 10 years or so online and accessible. I was then able to copy the material from all my archive drives as well as backup DVDs etc to create one master archive drive, which I could keep online and spinning. I bought a Seagate Archive HDD v2 8TB SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache Internal Bare Drive with SMR Technology 3.5" - ST8000AS0022 for around £200. For example, check out the Enterprise class drives that G-Technology uses in their storage solutions.Īs drive capacities have increased it is now possible to get dedicated archive drives. As with all types of backup media always buy the best quality as there is no point in backing up and archiving your valuable sessions only to store them on a cheap old drive you had lying around. One trick is to plug in your back up drives and run them up once every six months to help reduce the chance of sticky bearings. The only possible drawback to this technique is that there is some evidence that if you leave some older drives on the shelf for a significant period of time, then the lubricant in the bearing can go sticky and the drive wouldn’t spin up when you come to retrieve the data a couple of years later.
#GET BACKUP PRO 3 PRO#
This format of backup is now the norm and an effective way of backing up data with the cost of rotational drives so low, it is also a very cost-effective way to backup and archive data especially in the capacities that we need for with all the media relating to our Pro Tools sessions. As drive recovery companies will tell you, hard drives can and do fail very early in life or go on long after they have meant to have died and gone to heaven so you cannot rely on these figures. The replacements from the same drive manufacturer, same model etc, now only have a 1-year warranty, so I shopped around for brands and grades of drives with a 3-year warranty. However you cannot rely on any of these figures, but they are a guide as to how long the manufacturer thinks they may last. When I bought them, they had a 3-year warranty. I recently had to replace several drives that were coming to the end of their life. It has been interesting to see the warranty period on hard drives drop as the price has dropped. A more common estimate for drive reliability is around 1 to 2 years, especially for normal drives. The problem is that this number is usually anywhere between 50 & 100 years! Not a real-world number. Now that is for just one piece of data, your drive is doing this feat many many times a second and we complain when sometimes it doesn’t do it every time!!Īnother reason for complacency is that in the spec for every drive is a rating for ‘Mean Time Between Failure’ or MTBF for short. When retrieving a piece of data they equated it to flying a jumbo jet at zero altitude and finding a needle in a haystack. When I do, I always remind myself of a description I was given once, of how a rotational hard drive works.
We really shouldn’t get complacent about hard drive failures. So instead of waiting for the big bang why not put a backup strategy into place now so that when something goes wrong, which it inevitably will, it will only be a minor inconvenience rather than a catastrophic failure. The problem with backing up is that it is boring, time-consuming and as equipment has become more reliable we have become more complacent about taking the trouble to back up until BANG it all goes wrong and then we panic!! Better Safe Than Sorry
In other words, you need the original file and two copies preferably on different types of media and one of those copies stored at a different location to the other two so if there was a fire or worse at your main location you would still have a copy of all your data safely stored somewhere else. You aren’t backed up unless you have your data in 3 locations, one of which is off site. Backups Are Probably The Most Boring Way To Save Your Life To get protection against drive problems we need to back up all the session media only another drive or media type.
Even with the Auto Backup option active, I still hit Save regularly and especially after a particularly tricky edit so even if I have a problem in the 5 minutes since the last auto backup I won’t have to repeat that tricky edit again.īut neither of these options will protect you against a hard drive blip or even failure.
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