A suggestion if you are new to recording.

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Back up everything.

Clone your drives, backup or archive your stuff. Make sure it's well labeled so if you need to open it a decade later you can.

That is all...

Had my samples (komplete library, toontrack library, impulses, samples, addictive drums, etc...) drive go down today. 680GB of reinstalling stuff. I didn't lose anything but it's still a pain and I wish I had just cloned the drive since drives have gotten so cheap.
 
My RAID system is probably twice as costly as the computer it's backing up. And I have no problem with that.
 
I image my c: drive occasionally so I don't have to reload software and re-register everything. That's the biggest pain, keeping all the product keys straight; authorizations, etc...

It's probably about time to do that again.
 
My C drive is cloned, probably need to up date it, but it is pretty much an up to date clone.

All the recorded files are on multiple back ups, including an off site backup.

Alan.
 
We, musician son and I learned the hard way that external drives can be borked/go wrong. We got 80% of the data off one by freezing it (not it seems an OWT!).

I then bought a NAS drive and have it in a very safe place, actually on the floor behind my telly chair! That is 2TBs and backs up all of son's music and other stuff. I have another Seagate USB 3.0 drive that is attached to the (now largely redundant) AMD 6 core "music" PC but if son were to do any work over the holiday (he is visiting) I would copy it over to the NAS. The only downside to the NAS is that it is much slower than USB 3.0 even on a nominal 100Mb copper network but then the drive is now pretty old and was not that expensive.

Dave.
 
Dave, older NAS devices were pretty poor. 100Mb ethernet is also 1/10 the real-world transfer rates you'll see with USB 3. Newer NAS that advertise gigabit transfer rates actually transfer closer to those rates than older, cheap (looking at you DLink) NAS solutions. At under $200 for the unit plus ~$100 each drive you get a decent solution for $400.

My strategy has been to do periodic manual clones of my C: drive using Acronis, and weekly scheduled backups of my Data drive ( D: ). If the USB drive I'm backing up to fails, then I just run out and buy another and immediately do the C: clone and setup/run D: copy. I've been getting about 2-3 years out of inexpensive, off the shelf USB drives. It saves the cost of having a second computer or NAS device. At under $150 for the USB drive (and $20 for the Acronis software when it's on sale), I'm saving a decent amount of money compared to having a NAS.

If using a laptop with limited storage, where you need a USB drive as a data drive, you simply end up with (2) USB drives. If USB ports are at a premium, buy a USB hub. None of this takes much money or time. And you may never need it, but man will you be happy to have it when you do.
 
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Thanks for the info Pinky,
The drive gets very little use these days as there are no big music files to save and in any case I am retired, the kit does not have to "earn" so I can take all the time I need.

Dave.
 
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