Gear Talks Storing the footages

[Maverick]

What’s the best way to store 4k/5k videos you have recorded . And you also want to share it with your family ?

Is YouTube best way to share such heavy videos, or you have other better alternatives.

 

[BrutallyHonestGuy]

I got a 4 Terabyte backup drive where I store everything

 

[Maverick]

I got a 4 Terabyte backup drive where I store everything

Is that enough for you ? I have 10TB hard driver , but at the moment I've used half.

 

[BrutallyHonestGuy]

Not quite enough!

 

[Maverick]

Not quite enough!

You can get good External Hard drivers at good prices. You need to be careful what brand you buying. Not all of them are reliable.

 

[BrutallyHonestGuy]

Which one would you recommend?

 

[Maverick]

Which one would you recommend?

I have:

• WD Black 10TB
• WD 3X 5TB
• WD 1X 5TB - Newer version with type C cable, for my MacBook.

A lot of memory

 

[erichroland]

Spinning hard drives have become cheap, get a few 4tb drives and always back up each drive as any spinning drive will eventually fail. SSD drives are excellent but the faster ones get expensive. You don't always need the faster SSD drives unless you are editing FROM the drive then you'll need at least the medium speed drives, but edits may still hang up at times. If just storing the data then the slower drives are fine, which is a good way to go.... then just transfer the clips you want to edit to a fast (but maybe much smaller) editing drive.

 

[Maverick]

Spinning hard drives have become cheap, get a few 4tb drives and always back up each drive as any spinning drive will eventually fail. SSD drives are excellent but the faster ones get expensive. You don't always need the faster SSD drives unless you are editing FROM the drive then you'll need at least the medium speed drives, but edits may still hang up at times. If just storing the data then the slower drives are fine, which is a good way to go.... then just transfer the clips you want to edit to a fast (but maybe much smaller) editing drive.

I use only WD brand Hard Drivers. Have couple of them and the oldest one is 5 years old and still working. I use it to watch movies from it. I have an other WD Black 10TB which works fine too. Cost me £200. Would you say is a good brand ? WD