External HD vs. Dropbox
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- bainbridge
I'm ending a long project with a client and we've been working off their Dropbox.
I want to save a lot of the files for my portfolio after, obviously.
Do you guys recommend an External, or just getting my own DB and coping them over?
- spl33nidoru1
Do both on all projects.
I got a Vault folder for all completed project organised by type of gig, each with the full project files, from brief and raw shoot to deliverables.
+ labeled by type HD backups.No client will ever ask for these down the road, but you'll find yourself happy to have it all for various reasons. I have reedited 7 year old jobs to help win a specific pitch.
- *Vault is on dropboxspl33nidoru
- FYI, the Vault feature is disappearing soonhardhat
- Ah, I just created a folder named Vault, didn't even know there was a feature!spl33nidoru
- Wouldn't trust dropbox with all that.
External HD all the way******** - I also would not trust dropbox, based on them losing my stuff in the past.cherub
- prophetone0
Never stored in cloud - other than temporary, shareable projects - as simply too much data, can't be trusted imo. I've recently been looking at one of these nas raid units as I have a stack of old drives that I'm beginning to get worried about. Might be time to combine and have redundancy on a fresh system.
- They ain't cheapprophetone
- If you've got an always-on desktop, the non-network versions are pretty affordable used. Grab some 4TB drives for $50-100 and you're good to goakiersky
- These NAS's are just slow, proprietary computers. Better to get a used Dell Optiplex or something and stick your drives in it.monNom
- Be cautious of raid-cards as well. If they die, you can lose all your parity info. Software raid mirrored pairs in a generic file server would be my pick.monNom
