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HDD Storage Space
I’m sure this will sound very insignificant to folks running multiple crews, but I just ran out of space on a 500GB external hard drive that I store my job files on. I have multiple of the same drive and back up between them regularly. But right now I have less than 200MB of space. It took 22 years of job files to accomplish that.
I just ordered some 8TB drives to get things copied over to and start using. I suspect that should be enough storage space to see me through the rest of my career.
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Does the 500GB of data include GPS data logging files, or is that just total station and RTK type observations?
22 years on a HDD without failure or data loss? That’s impressive.
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Oops, My statement was not as clear as it could have been. 22 years of data, not necessarily the same drive. I back up to other drives and have lost a couple in those years of time. Which is why I have the data on multiple drives. But I can only recall 2 drives that failed in that time.
The 500GB includes: usual job file info (rw5, crd, txt) from both total station, static, and rtk observations. It also includes scans of all job file documents, drawing files, shape files, aerial images, DEM data, scans of almost all record plats for my home county, scans of some COE maps for the area of the lake near me, scans of some Westvaco tract maps for my home county, a whole bunch of saved PDF files of reading material posted on this board, and a whole bunch of junk that could probably be erased!
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Don’t forget there are some free/really cheap online backup services as well. These are great, especially in the event of a catastrophic event in your area, flooding/hurricane etc etc. Additionally, you can share the files as needed with yourself or other people.
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100ƒ?ª for 2TB on google drive a year or a lifetime deal on pcloud.
Upload once and never have to worry again.
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I worry, a little. I have a 1T external hard drive and a 2T dropbox dot com cloud backup account. Suspenders and a belt. But, now dropbox is storing the files and folders only in the cloud, not in both places. They say they are saving me hard disk space. I donƒ??t want to save hard disk space. The settings are set so that this should not be happening. They want me to reinstall the software. I donƒ??t want to take that risk either. I worry. A little.
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@beuckie Good point. I use a Google Drive as well. $9.99 US / month. Unfortunately, I’m not as conscientious about doing the cloud back up as I am with the physical drive. And even with the Google files, I still worry. Probably because I’m too old to fully trust a storage option I can’t see with my own eyes.
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If you use Office 365 for your email, they give you a “free” 1TB OneDrive account. Works great for pics, sharing files w/ client/contractors, etc. If you are a small organization, you can do the following:
-register your domain w/ GoDaddy (has to be GoDaddy for some………..bollocks reason………that MS came up with)
-get the family plan for up to 6 people for $100 USD per year
-now all 6 can have an email address w/ your domain along w/ email, office apps, and 1 TB of storage.
Tough to beat for a small shop. Just don’t expand beyond 6 (otherwise, the individual fee works out better what w/ all the headache of switching over).
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