I quickly run out of storage space, so I’ve resorted to deleting the original video files. I don’t personally see a scenario where I would need to find them again and re-upload, especially if they’re older videos. I can download them from YouTube anyway if I need to. It doesn’t seem worth buying multiple expensive external hard drives to store all these video files. That said, I’d like to get your perspective and reasoning for your storage solution.
I have almost all the videos from day 1, a total of 500gb+ of content is "safely" backed up in an old HDD with 26% of health remaining, i hope it's gonna survive till it goes full haha
I don't, I'm relying on youtubes big data centers to keep it for me for years to come lol
Same! But this thread has me rethinking that decision haha
I have a terabyte hard drive that I back everything onto. I plan to fill another one when this one runs out.
I back up all my videos to a SSD just in case, I don't keep the original videos before the editing has been done only the ones I uploaded to YouTube
I bought a portable 1TB SSD from Amazon for £70-80 for the sole purpose of backing them up in case I lost my channel for something stupid I can at least have all of my work to upload to a new one
If you do or say something stupid and YouTube brings down the hammer on you all your hard work will be gone for good if you don't archive it
I had all the materials and result videos on my mac and would also pass some videos from my PC for editing. Quickly ran out of space, so I bought an external 4TB hard drive. Formatted it into FAT32 to make it usable across both systems.
Now I have all my resources (all footage, reusable sounds, memes, greenscreen stuff) as well as all completed videos on a single drive, and I can just plug it into whatever hardware I need and edit it from right there.
I have them on a few hard drives and few clouds. If you care about what you create, pay some extra cash for stuff like this and sleep well, knowing that you won't lose it that easily.
Once I’m done with a project the video itself and all files go onto a hard drive and live there for the rest of their lives until I need them again (if I ever do).
I save most everything. I've been struggling with that question also. I recently picked up an 8tb my cloud so I could continue to save everything for the time being. I've used clips and stuff from old videos. Switching to 4k has also increased my storage needs quite a bit.
I use Dropbox so it's always synched somewhere.
I do
Yup have 6 tb’s dedicated to backups. I’ll switch to a RAID setup one day I’m sure.
Backed up with identical copies on three hard drives, one internal, two external and one of those is in a fireproof safe.
Never put all your eggs in one basket, especially one that’s up in the clouds.
Heck yeah
Unfortunately yes. I'm still new but I'm going to need a more permanent solution quick.
I have a software background, and so part of me wants to keep versioned reproducible histories of everything in well-organized directories with consistent filenames.
And then I watched how non-digital artists work. They don't get to do that. Every step they make destroys the previous step irreversibly.
And performance arts like dance and music are even more ephemeral. The performance is everything.
So now I am only as organized as I need to be to get the project finished quickly. I have everything on my computer, but I won't have a problem deleting it when I need space. I can't read the video from the very first things I uploaded to YouTube in 2006 because the format is obsolete, so why keep MP4s around, either? I'm not going to be able to keep up with formats or store things more reliable than YouTube.
I'll also add that I was an intern in a TV station in 1990. You would think they would keep all the B-roll and interviews and stuff, but they didn't. These were tapes that took up a lot of space, and the search system was having an intern watch them. They kept raw footage for a while, but if you were looking for something from a year ago, all there was was the recording of the broadcast. And if you think about it, why would you need all the stuff you edited out? And since there were no computers really, there were no filenames and directories, just handwritten labels on tape cassettes (and a handwritten log of the stories on each broadcast, taken from the form used to plan it). And they actually had a good reason to refer to their old work.
So don't save it just because it's easier than it was decades ago.
I back up my videos onto SD cards. When they’re full I put them in a small ziplock taped to an index card and I write the contents, dates, etc.. on the card. Then the cards are filed in a cigar for easy retrieval
You should if you want to make sure you have access to that material later.
Many ways to do this, external USB hard drives, USB sticks, NAS, even cloud storage can work
Absolutely. Then again I am a massive data hoarder and I have terabytes worth of hard drives.
I have a load of 6TB SAS hard drives that I got for very cheap and use a HBA PCI-E card to read the hard drives since consumer hardware doesn't have SAS support.
I would say I have around 40TB and it's still growing.