Dope Tech Episode 2

<<@mikem9695 says : A lot of people probably find the offsite backup a problem. Just putting your most vital files onto a good quality flash drive kept on your key ring is a good compromise. If the house burns down & you haven't got time to grab your car keys then losing data is the least of your problems 😂>> <<@HarpaxA says : @2:55 For Windows user, I highly recommend the Passport Ultra. I hate those MicroUSB 3.0 port, it's very flimsy, got disconnected multiple time in the middle of copying stuff. Also for the Opening Encryption in Passport series you don't need dedicated software, they have virtual drive to open it (in Windows)>> <<@bargyarr says : you should use m discs instead!!!>> <<@SandraObrien-g7h says : Hello will this hdd work with iPad 10th it has a usc c type connection? Thanks>> <<@Turgineer says : This HDD caught my attention because of its 5TB capacity and reasonable price.>> <<@arsvitae285 says : If I may ask, how long do drives intended for archiving last, i.e., those that are only turned on a few times a year? What is the best method for extending their lifespan? I am mainly referring to 3.5" HDDs.>> <<@zzz9632-c7c says : great video! i too want to get the exact same external hdd for backups, but the reviews are mixed with a lot of them reporting that their drive failed too early, so how is your holding up? i am planning to get two wd 5tb external drives to use as a mirrored offline on-site backup, backing up everything important every month or on demand>> <<@johncasey5594 says : I have a 70 TB media server with a variety of WD drives. Personally would never trust Seagate for my primary storage, bad experience way back in 2011/2012. I do however backup my media server onto 5TB Seagate external drives. I backup my media server fully twice a year. I do it in the Summer and Winter when nothing is airing. Sounds risky? Not really. If I did have a catastrophic loss within those 6 months, chances are the episodes and movies I lost would still be easily available.>> <<@m4n0jp says : What are you?>> <<@Banana85021 says : Turns out how we use drives has changed. 2.5 drive enclosures don’t have much variety nowadays and SSD enclosures are the thing now. Considering that Hard drives are now for long term multimedia storage/system image backups while SSDs are for on the go and frequently used data. That also means that it’s harder to come by 2.5 SATA HDDs compared to the portable ones. And I was debating between Seagate and WD. I went for the seagate instead as the drive uses a standard sata 2.5 hdd and a usb to sata board while WD has the usb connector embedded on the HDD itself, making it less flexible and serviceable if it becomes inaccessible by the PC. The higher read/write speeds of seagate drives is a plus too. I do see myself as someone who prefers to choose the drive and a use I have control and know what I am getting but choosing a seagate portable drive is the closest I can get to how I previously approached it>> <<@Banana85021 says : I have multiple drives for the same reasons you do. A 4TB Seagate UltraTouch to store multimedia a similar 2TB one for disk/system image using diskgenius and a 1TB NVMe SSD + enclosure for frequently used files. It’s unfortunate that it’s hard to come by 2.5 SATA HDD since many builds (big and small) and prebuilds (e.g Dell) have SSDs as the default storage options and any need for HDDs you have to purchase your own.>> <<@ajs2120 says : Hi Chris, are your desktop wallpapers available to download please? Thanks>> <<@ToyotaAltezza99 says : How is it holding up? I bought a 1TB version to massively increase the storage of my mac.>> <<@dailyvibesmix says : very well explained, stay blessed, thank you dear.>> <<@0verride881 says : WD hard drives regularly disconnect and contain malware. DO NOT BUY. Your files WILL get corrupted in due time.>> <<@noneyabizznes says : I've never has a WD drive fail on me. I have some over 10 years old. On the contrary, I've had at least 2 Seagate drives fail. I'm a WD man forever>> <<@Robotrik1 says : While I found your dedication to backing things up mildly impressive, your "home made test" of your new HDD could be a lot better . I for one create a 98-99% equal volume folder to the new drive, and I make sure that it has a ton of small, diverse files, lot's of pictures, lots of mp3's & word docs, episodes in different formats, and in general whatever I can find to throw into said folder, and then I copy & erase that folder to the new drive 3-4 times . Yes, it takes a long time sometimes. But I want that writing head to dance around like a person on fire, looking for a lake . And that is not what it does using your test . In your trst it just gets into a monotone run , with very little variation or effort . Or in other words, I apply the Seagate HDD option, which is "if it's gonna fail, it'll likely fail a lot sooner if it has issues". And if it won't fail when I'm throwing at it the worse I got again and again ... -- then it's likely not going to fail while I boot it up every now and again to update the backups on it . Cheers .>> <<@SRN42069 says : Why don't you shuck the drive from those portable ones and put it into your caddy, that caddy seems way more convenient then the usb interface.>> <<@SRN42069 says : Me personally I have always been a fan of Toshiba drives I never had a ton of luck with WD and Seagate>> <<@howtobebasic2122 says : Press 8 repeatedly to say DEW IT!>> <<@DB-47 says : Backing up is crucial and I am honestly surprised how many people can live happily without having spare copy of the data especially when SSDs can die more often suddenly compared to HDDs (they can break also suddenly anyways). I also learned it when my Lexar NM800 Pro died suddenly which I was by that time using for crucial data like my photo archive, screenshots from games, documents and music library. Fortunately my backup strategy paid off and I ended up only with tiny data loss (I lost about 2 days of data from last backup update interval instead of whole data set). SSD just stopped being recognised by UEFI and all data were unaccessible. I currently implemented 4-2-1 rule, 4 copies including original, 2 physical media type (NVMe SSD + conventional HDD), 1 offsite backup. My ruitinne is now each 14 days to refresh backup consisting of byte copy from bootable SSDs on PC and notebook including two extra SSDs which I included into backup scheme. I have in total 3 different 8 TB HDDs, each one is from different manufacturer so in case one of those had hidden firmware bug or design flaw, it won't kill all my backups instantly. When I update on-site back ups then I bring one random on-site backup HDD to off-site backup site, swap it with off-site backup containing old data, bring it on-site and I refresh it with fresh data as well. Google Calendar reminds me each 14 days (including 1 day ahead reminder) to do that procedure. So far it paid off 3 times, twice recovering quickly broken Windows, once in case of data loss as mentioned above. P.S. I actually avoid whole WD passport and generally their 2.5" external HDD portfolio due to having USB port directly on board not leaving SATA port accessible. I eventually phased them out and I sold them after cryptoshredding + one random data pass fill.>> <<@deanharris7149 says : Awesome as usual.>> <<@Marconpurpose says : You know he’s got a ton of Bitcoin. Lol.>> <<@AttilaM-p6x says : How do you make sure that the data was copied correctly, and that old -- previously copied -- data has not been corrupted? Do you use any checksum tools?>> <<@vgupta4760 says : Thanks for your video. It's always a delight to see your content!however, WD = what a dump! After 5 HDD failures, 2 of which are WD book and 1 WD portable elements, I will never buy that garbage in the future.>> <<@gsau3000 says : Very hard to listen to.>> <<@AlphaBravo73 says : whats the best way to clear files from a wd elements drive? format or delete all files? there is nothing on YT to explain this for win 10>> <<@aravjain says : My backup strategy: 5-4-2 I hope it isn’t too overkill…>> <<@jwb935 says : I calculated that it would take around 13 hours at 4700Gb capacity at 6Gbpm transfer speed to fill the whole drive.>> <<@colt5189 says : As far as keeping one backup "off site". If I had the income, I'd rent a bank vault. But I may instead store a backup in the trunk of my car. Though, I'm not sure how well it would hold up from the heat and freezing temps of the winter.>> <<@antoniiocaluso1071 says : what's REALLY needed by the rest-of-us is...a great DUPLICATE-FINDING freeware!!>> <<@IrfanAli-qp1gm says : Thanks - a very clear and concise video.>> <<@marks-the-spot says : I just had a WD Elements 5TB drive fail two months before the 2-year warranty expired. It still worked, but was louder than my laptop fan. I received a refurbished replacement from WD in about two weeks. That was much better then two Seagate USB drives that failed several months after the 2-year warranty expired. Since I have had three USB drive failures in the third year of operation, I am going to switch from the Elements drives with the 2 year warranty to the WD My Passport for the 3-year warranty.>> <<@voldy3565 says : I've been using this HDD for the past 5 years. Still works perfectly.>> <<@hallsofvalhalla1749 says : I could do with options for offsite backups. I used to use work, but that is no longer an option. I refuse to the cloud, because it's expensive and not trustworthy. I could leave them with a friend, but that doesn't seem convenient. Was considering a safety deposit box. Anyone have ideas?>> <<@hallsofvalhalla1749 says : An update on this. You can get 16tb (larger?) seagate drives, including there ironwolf series, which are meant to be good quality. These are 3.5 though. This is probably a better option than these WD portable drives. Although I have been using WD portable drives. I'll probably use them until they get too small or fail. Then I will likely switch to exos or ironwolf.>> <<@zibberebbiz says : having just had my second WD My Passport HDD die in only a few years, sadly I wouldn't recommend these to anyone for long-term storage>> <<@scstudios8 says : I just had a WD Elements die. Basically, external USB drives are frequently just sata Internal drives, put in a box with a usb controller. The usb controller is the first thing to fail. The only good news is, you can rip off all the junk around the drive and you have a normal sata internal drive inside there. Plug that into a computer and probably you are ok. I dont know why, but the usb controllers stuck on these fail. You have to know that the drive is ok inside there, just rip all the junk off. I had a 6tb drive, it died after just about 1 year. Oddly, you can see the drive that was inside there was from 2018, which means WD is probably taking old internal drives that didnt sell, wrap them up inside a usb controller and selling that. Not good. Just buy an internal sata drive, then buy a sata to usb conversion box and you are probably better off.>> <<@JanBanJoovi-ol1qv says : I just bought a new 5TB WD Elements HDD. There’s a program inside the external hard drive. I clicked and it run the installation. But it was stuck at 18%. It says installing 18%. But it’s been like this for a very long time. What should I do?>> <<@kriswillems5661 says : what do you you do to prevent bit rot? Do you regularly rewrite your data?>> <<@captaintruth3219 says : Nice video but you gotta get rid of the Phil Spector wig. bald is beautiful.😀>> <<@stuartsherman5975 says : Thank you very much for tire very helpful video.>> <<@johngangemi1361 says : I prefer to use USB to HDD enclosures.>> <<@estherkwok6492 says : Wow ! such a great video , very detail and informative, subscribed ! Thank you for this good lesson!>> <<@denarjan says : Bought a Passport and a month later an Elements (because of password issue Linux). Both failed in months. Password completely inaccessible, elements constantly needing repair of file system. Terrible drives!>> <<@reddlief says : Safety Deposit Box - I have a video collection of 28,000 mp4 files on a NAS using Plex. Although a considerable amount went into purchase, the irreplaceable element is the time it took to acquire and digitize the videos. We get a free safety deposit box at our bank. It's just a bit over 3.75" wide, so these 5TB hard drives fit perfectly. I can get 3 high and as I have 4 now, the 3 new 5TB will fit snug in an offsite facility that usually isn't robbed and in the vault, would be fire-proof. I back up my offsite drives every quarter as my additions are few these days. My onsite back up is used upstairs so I can review the quality and accuracy of the backup. These are backed up monthly. And within my NAS, I backup videos and personal MS Office data nightly. I feel pretty confident with my backup system.>> <<@chris_topher1984 says : i have the exact same one, and it went bad after two and a half years of daily use, never being carried around or abused or moved. it just developed bad clusters and sectors, and the drive gets really hot in those tiny enclosures. i stay way from 2.5 inch external drives, they are much more fragile and prone to failure than the 3.5in hdds.>> <<@Michael-it6gb says : I have a 2TB WD My Passport I bought 10 years ago in 2013 for the same price as this one. I thought capacity would be far beyond that in 2023.>> <<@FlyingFun. says : The biggest thing for me to consider is how to keep all the backups up to date and TESTED to make sure they are in good order and varify te data on them. Even a 3 or 4 point strategy could fail if the back ups are not tested, you might restore something thinking it's all ok only to find somewhere down the line that some file or other is corrupt and inusable but you have back that file up to every drive thinking it's all ok, The way to get around that is to keep loads of copies from various times that dont get rewritten, or to use some program that checks the data? I was looking at that exact drive and the speed looks OK for a hdd, but I'm buying nvme drives now and even in an external case they are SO fast it makes backing up to hdd a real chore and I can see a point where I just wont bother with hdd, A good option for that might be to have a stand alone drive that has an nvme inside which gets filled when you back up to it but then it feeds that data over to the hdd in its own time so you just leave it with some power and carry on with your day.>> <<@googleisshittoss says : Didn't take long before mine screwed up on windows 10 with the "set address failed error 42" error...they're a pain in the ***>>