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Hey Colt, Man that’s an awful thing to go through. Thanks for the video. I just replace my five year old internal drive in my iMac to a Crucial 2TB SSD and backup to two outboard LACIE drives as well (7200rpm) I’m interested in replacing those with that raid system. Blessings, Jamie 🙏🏼💛

Do you keep your backup drives connected at all times, just not in use? Or do you only connect them when you're going to back up? I've been leaving my backup drive connected at all times for ease of use, but if that also kills its lifetime faster, then I need to unmount it.

My original skills are in tech. So I have a NAS with a RAID 5+1 array. That then backs up to G-Drive. If a drive fails.. which I hate to be contrarian.. doesn't matter what you buy, it will fail eventually. but when a drive fails i just swap it with another one, the parity rebuilds itself and i'm good to go.

When you say you "clone the drive", are you literally copying the entire drive every time, or just copying the new content? It seems futile and creates unnecessary wear to clone an entire drive rather than only the new content. You might want to make that more clear if you are only copying new content. Thanks! :)

How do you provide a download link? Using a cloud based service or something?

Are you dropping and dragging your files to backup or using a software?

That' the reason why you should record on server with RAID;.. If one HDD fails, you have not one but 2 back-up on 2 drives...

In a similar boat for years, Colt. Have you used so many different types of drives over the years. Now, with terabytes of Kontakt libraries, etc. etc. Been looking into a NAS/Server set up or an OWC 1UR. Lots of great benefits to hone in 15+ TB into an SSD network solution in a rackmount frame. Been going down the rabbit hole! Great channel, Colt.

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By using your SSDs as session drives, you are driving them to an early demise, hastening them to that failure point. With latency in recording an issue, most definitely, create a recording session on an SSD. After the recording process is finished, save the project to a platter for editing where latency it no longer an issue.

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Carbon Copy Cloner... every day. With a third backup at mom's house in case mine burns down. No seriously.

“SSD drives are generally non-recoverable” - genuinely THANK YOU for sharing information that the manufacturers would definitely NOT advertise about their products. Cheers!

Been There … Done That ! 15 years ago The Same thing Happened to Me and lost $4500 of clients music ! I back up times 4 Since Then. !!

I remember this story from your previous video; thank you so much for the advice to not use SSDs as backup drives. :D It helped me tremendously. HDD all the way for me. Also, the docking stations look really convenient!

I love the new background. I can't wait for the studio tour! Always leveling up.

What on earth??? who only relies on one or two hard drives in a pro studio? at the end of each day, ALL my data is in a MINIMUM of three places. And I always take at least one of those drives home so that all my data is in a minimum of two separate physical places.

I'm having roughly the same problem right now. I have a RAID1 NAS and always make a system backup of my complete PC on Sunday. But on Saturday the system hard disk broke, luckily I didn't do much during the week, so the loss is not that big.

I use the redundant hard drives plus cloud back up technique. SSD inside the computer handles the session, end of the session I clone it to an external SSD, then back up to the cloud server. Only takes losing files once to whip you into shape real quick!

I've been using the Samsung T7 for years. I've never had a problem with a single one of them. At this point, I've gone through five of them. Even my oldest ones still work perfectly.

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Colt - Another thought just occurred to me... When using RAID-1 (two HDDs, mirrored), you have a very robust storage solution indeed. HOWEVER... Be proactive and have, on hand, at least (1) additional HDD (same type as in your RAID) . This can then be swapped in to your RAID if you ever start to experience storage failures. I keep (2) HDDS on hand just because. It's a fairly expensive contingency but you want to make sure every drive in that usage group is IDENTICAL in storage and performance specs. Oh, and speaking of performance specs, besides RPM (eg, 7200), you want to get the fastest READ/WRITE speeds you can in your HDDs. Big Write-buffer cache is also a must too. These two operating parameters are the most common causes of DAW buffer underflows; your CPU might be sitting around waiting for your storage drives to read or write data streams. For example: transfer a large data file to an HDD (or even SSD) and, after a few seconds, you might see its performance PLUMMET if you exceed its write cache. As per my previous comment, get the best SSD/HDD you can afford for audio production use. Cheers!

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I high pass almost every channel BUT... I do live sound, not studio recording. Apples to oranges.

I have to correct you here Colt, SSD drives are safer than spinning disk drives. They can take drops/bangs better, they don't wear out since there are no moving parts, and (on average) last longer than spinning disk drives. The caveat is that when they go bad, as you mentioned, you cannot recover information as easily as on a spinning disk drive. I have learned over the years that there is only one sytem that can keep your data safe and apocalypse-proof: - Make sure all your drives(internal and external) are from big reputable brands - Run software and os on your computer's internal ssd(don't use spinning disk drives for internal storage as they are slower and less reliable than ssd drives) - If you don't have much storage space/need to travel, use an external ssd for save files - Back up internal ssd(and external ssd for save files if you have one) to a spinning disk drive - Back up that spinning disk drive to the cloud This is the 1 2 3 rule. 1 piece of data in two different locations(In your studio and on the cloud) on 3 different storage types(ssd, spinning disk and cloud).

YUp we all learn the HARD way. Since i had that happen to me 12 years ago & now run all EXTERNAL "SAMSUNG T7 SSD Drive for #1Audio/ Projects, #2 Sound LIBRARY, #3 Video/PIcs for MOVIE's YT. Plus 2 8TB EXT. HHD ( CLONED ) for Archives BACK UP PROJECTS & all other SSD's. then of course TIME MACHINE Ext. HD

Also you've got it backwards: raid 0 is redundant, with half capacity, and raid 1 is striped (no redundancy) for better performance. You want raid 0

Wait, you had time machine backups, so why did you have to go right to data recovery? What happened to the backups?

I bought myself a raid years ago when I was collecting movies and tv shows. We didn't have cable and I would add the videos into iTunes, then we would use our Wii wirelessly connecting to my Mac Mini to get access to everything. Kept my iTunes library on the external and we could easily watch whatever we wanted to. It was a 4 disc setup and I think each disc was 2TB bc they had become much cheaper. I was using an eSATA connection from the Mini and had the drives set to RAID 5. Raid 5 needs at least 3 discs and that shares the parity information (the data needed to reconstruct missing data) is spread across all drives. So if you get the flashing red light one day that disc 3 has gone bad, you have a spare identical drive handy and you just remove it and slot the new drive in. The system will recognize the new drive then proceed to rebuild the missing data on the new disc. It was pretty cool and I wasn't using it for anything truly mission critical, but it made sense. Also had family photos and things like that saved there.

I always buy 2 hard drives - a master and a backup. Saves a lot of heartache.

Hey Colt, couple of things to add, don't know with Pro Tools, but with Logic Pro, you need to close your current project if you want to back it up, if still open, the project is locked. Sight... Regarding the tiering backups, you should always keep an offline copy outside of your house (fire, burglary, cyber attack,...). Cyber Attack is still something that could happen to us, what would you do if you end up of having all your data encrypted and asking for a ransoms to decrypt it ? Answer : offline copy. Most likely, if your backup disk connected to your computer, It is compromised too.

The issue with a NAS(raid Box) is that the NAS box itself can go bad I had a Netgear NAS one that used for 9 years one day it stoped working. Nothing wrong with the hard drives it was the NAS itself. Guess what? I could not take those hard drives out and use them because the Netgear used something proprietary on the hard drives making good hard drives useless unless I want to reformat them on another system and use them again. I would say you need 2 NAS (raid boxes)

What are you using to send download links of songs to clients?

I worked the last 20years, before I retired in computer support and this is good info for everybody! I was always taught that your data isn't safe, unless you have at least 3 backups! On top of that, at least one of those backups need to be off site! Now that I'm retired, I can't afford the off sight backup. My fix for that is to at least store that 3rd copy, in a fire safe box at the outer corner of my garage! This in theory is the safest place for that off chance of a fire! Yes, that solid state drive is good for speed, but not for backup!😁

Thank you so much for this share my former fellow Peorian Brother from another Mother! I was actually recently exploring a wireless NAS system to implement in my backup ecosystem. Great content! "Keep Doing That Voodoo That You Do!" 👊😉

Thanks for sharing, I will eventually work my way towards a NAS system but I think this is a good middle choice option for my data storage situation. Great information 🫡

Something i learned in the Army as an IT Specialist is learn how to set up a Network Attached Storage and as a Music Producer that saved me God knows how many times when it comes to backups. Its relatively easy to set up and if you work while traveling you can have Access to your files anywhere in the world where you have internet Access and a VPN. Cheers from Puerto Rico

Great video! And if you want to make it perfect, keep a copy in a safe or in another house, because if your studio burns down or someone steals your stuff, you want to be on the safe side too.

I know the feeling.. happened to me too many times FML.

CrashPlan. Nightly backups online.

I've been a data protection fanatic for a long time. There are no less that 10 individual HD's running in my studio in 2 different machines as we speak. A couple of things about data speed / latency - I am a PC guy, so I'm not very well versed in the Mac world - but the fastest drives on the market now are M.2 / NVMe drives (3x-5x faster than SATA SSD). Using RAID1 to mirror a drive does add another physical drive to your back-up scheme ... but I use it more as a "zero downtime" solution. Imagine your primary drive failing - where your OS / applications / plugins / etc are. You may not lose any session data ... but how long would it take to rebuild / reinstall EVERYTHING to get that machine up & running again? Running an internal RAID1 array on your OS drive ensures that there are always 2 mirrored copies of that primary drive - and the RAID software on your motherboard constantly monitors the 'health' of both drives. In the event that one of them fails ... the software will alert you, you replace the faulty drive, the software will 'rebuild' the array (clone data from the existing good drive) - and you are back in business with little to no downtime. Just another way to view the use RAID in a studio setup ..... keep up the awesome work my man - excited to see / hear the new room !!!

Not to rain on your parade Colt, but what’s to prevent a file being written incorrectly to both drives in the raid? That has happened to people before and they just ended up with a corrupted file in both locations.

I’m so excited to see this rooms final product! Backup systems is something i definitely need to invest into, but can’t afford it yet unfortunately. So tiny physical hard drive and google drive will have to do for now

I like your recording advice but your IT advice is not good. RAID 1 is OK but it offers no protection against data corruption, fires etc. If you are running a business, you need to have your data backed up to the cloud regularly and automatically. Apple doesn't have any business grade offerings that I'm aware of. It should be something like Amazon S3 or maybe Google Drive. The storage costs are significantly lower than buying hard drives and you won't lose your data.

I would add to this... Sync the Raid backup to an online file hosting service like Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive or Mega. It is very important to have a solution that has available a sync agent so the hard drive can stay on sync as soon as you modify any data in it. The same issue happened to me about 2 years ago and since then I've been keeping 3 data points. A work drive, a backup drive and an online hosting sync for the backup drive. Edit: I replied before getting to the part that you mentioned cloud storage. 😅

Wow that must have been rough!

Raid 1 and Cloud Backup

The Blackmagic 10g dock has been a life saver. 1U rack space that can save to 4 separate drives. Makes backing up at the end of a tracking session a breeze.

SEAGATE IRON WOLF ENTERPRISE CLASS ONLY FOR SPIN DRIVES. Also Triplicate. I have the Voyager here also. AND SSD's. The warranty with SEAGATE IS worthless however, been there and so you just replace the Spin up HD. I also use directory repair with all of the external HD. BTW Even Raid will fail I hear, but GLYPH is the best super reliable. I also like ATOM. With ATMOS and picture I have to use the fastest possible. Also Iron Wolf has THE best electronics for the Raw HD you can get online and worth it. I have two 16TB Raids for BU in addition to T7 Rugged, which are the fastest and Glyph ATOM. two fire safes always BU for security of all the drives and backed up and tested every week or so in addition to the Samsung drag and drop. I also clone my internal Mac Studio every single day as I used the internal for ProTools. CC Cloner or SuperDuper. Time Machine is worthless imho. Try restoring a HD with just that.. lol