Value is in the eye of the beholder.
 
My songs, samples and VSTs are invaluable to me.

bapu
Value is in the eye of the beholder.
 
My songs, samples and VSTs are invaluable to me.

Hear hear! Mine are too, just not to anybody else. By the way, I listened to some of your music, really nice stuff, Bapu!
 
I use simple Windows Image Backup (Windows 8.1) to an external 2TB USB disk drive, a Seagate thing. I schedule a nightly backup which works well since my PC is never powered down.

After getting those reminder tweets from Craig Anderton every month about backing up, I finally upgraded my system and now have backups.
 
It is not that I did not have backups at all but nothing I could easily restore from should something go wrong.
 
Not that anyone should care but I thought I would post because 1) I am excited about my upgrade and backups; 2) as a reminder that if you are not backing up, you should and 3) SSDs are pretty nice. If you were on the fence, do it!!!
 
I took the opportunity to split my system and data drives, as well as upgrading to an SSD as the system drive.
 
I was concerned about fitting everything on it because I use my computer for everything and have a lot of stuff on it. I purchased a 500GB (the marketing GB) but it really is 465GB formatted. I moved all my data and migrated various program profiles to my new data drive and was able to get my system size down to 122GB of the 465GB SSD. And that is after years of installing, uninstalling, Windows 7 -> 8 -> 8.1 upgrade in place, driver installs, etc...
 
I really should have done this a long time ago. My computer is several years old but it feels like a brand new machine!
 
As far as hardware, I went with a Samsung 500GB SSD and a Western Digital Black 2TB drive for data. I also have a 3TB WD Red to backup my data. I will use an older drive to backup the system drive. I purchased the Acronis software for backing up but I am returning it because of all the negative posts I have read about the latest release. I am not even installing it. I should have read up on it first. lol  I ended up using AOMEI (free) for backup as well as cloning the system. It all went very smooth.
 
The WD Black HDD is soooo fast. I was able to access data quicker on it over USB than from my internal SATA drive (WD Blue). It may have already been dying, I don't know. Once I got everything back up and running, I loaded the Sonar mixing tutorial program and it loads off the new WD Black drive many times faster than it ever did off my old drive.
 
Thank you Craig for the reminders and thank you everyone who posted on the advice and encouragement :-)

6 HDDs
HDD1: System
HDD2: Saves
HDD3: Libraries 1
HDD4: Libraries 2
HDD5: Library Backup
HDD6: Plugin backup/Save Backup/Misc
 
Saves to HDD2/HDD6, then to OneDrive. You get unlimited storage on OneDrive when you have an MS Office 365 account which costs I think $7/mo for one computer or $12/mo for up to 3 or 5, can't remember which.

Desktop is mirrored RAID.
I back up via Acronis to a Synology NAS (via LAN cable) which is running RAID 5.
I backup the NAS to an external USB hard drive.

(Edited I missed something).

anyone use Carbonite for cloud backup?
 
 
or Mozy?