So I ordered the OWC ThunderBay 8-Bay Enclosure to expand my photographic and video storage. I was very happy to spot that OWC had brought out a new 8-bay solution, which I had somehow missed. With the constant need for more storage, when my current storage got down to a few hundred gigabytes of free space, the time came to expand. In return, I will get a month added onto my membership too, so thank you. Use my Backblaze referral link and get a free month of unlimited backup:įeel free to share this post, or this link, so your friends and colleagues will benefit as well. I use Backblaze to backup my computer and close to a million photographs, with almost 24Tb backed up on their servers. Have a read through their website for more info on all their system does. One huge reason being that you can backup attached external drives (RAID boxes etc) too. After much research, I chose them for my backup. This offer may be of interest to anyone who hasn’t got Cloud backup yet or hasn’t tried Backblaze before.

OWC ThunderBay 8 Thunderbolt 3, 8 Bay Storage Enclosure.

My main image database resides on 5 hard drives, all of which are backed up to Backblaze. Remember, family ‘snaps’ will become probably your most important and treasured archive as time passes, so treat both as equally important. Invest a little, create a strategy and have peace of mind and security for your personal and professional work. The number of times I’ve heard from desperate colleagues who have had a drive fail on them, with no backups and in that desperation are willing to lose in the high hundreds if not thousands of pounds, in the hope that a data specialist might be able to rescue some data, is dreadful. The more locations your data is in, the safer it will be. Photo: ©Edmond TerakopianĪs well as local backups and off-site backups, it’s crucial to have a Cloud backup. It’s important to realise that you have to see it as a strategy. As we get into the new year, sadly with most of us in lock down, perhaps this is a good opportunity to start looking at your data backup strategy.

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