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<blockquote data-quote="aroy" data-source="post: 277036" data-attributes="member: 16090">At home between my two sons and I, we have five laptops and two desktops. My desktop is a dual 4 core Xeon with space of upto 10 HDD. At present it has 6 connected HDD with a mix of 4x1TB and 2x2TB drives. We also have over years a lot of older 160, 300 and 750GB HDD. In future I plan to expand it 8 x 4TB drives. For storage we have at least 10 USB drives, but have found that long term storage is best done on CD. DVD go bad very fast, unless they are stamped.The best option still, is the 1TB USB drive. As long as it is accessed once a month, data will stay on it for years. I am planning to program one of the older laptops to &quot;exercise&quot; the backup archival disks once a month. The critical data still goes to CD burnt at a low 8x speed.Cloud storage is extremely expensive in India due to slow broad band speeds, so ruled out for all but critical stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aroy, post: 277036, member: 16090"] At home between my two sons and I, we have five laptops and two desktops. My desktop is a dual 4 core Xeon with space of upto 10 HDD. At present it has 6 connected HDD with a mix of 4x1TB and 2x2TB drives. We also have over years a lot of older 160, 300 and 750GB HDD. In future I plan to expand it 8 x 4TB drives. For storage we have at least 10 USB drives, but have found that long term storage is best done on CD. DVD go bad very fast, unless they are stamped. The best option still, is the 1TB USB drive. As long as it is accessed once a month, data will stay on it for years. I am planning to program one of the older laptops to "exercise" the backup archival disks once a month. The critical data still goes to CD burnt at a low 8x speed. Cloud storage is extremely expensive in India due to slow broad band speeds, so ruled out for all but critical stuff. [/QUOTE]

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