Hardware
The HDD replacement I’ve chose are seven 8TB Seagate Archive hard drives, for a total of 56TB of storage. Now, since I’ll have a RAID and a NAS set up as part of my backup strategy I’m not going to use all of that, in fact I will even lose some of it because of the RAID, but it should keep me going for the foreseeable future
NAS are great for two reasons: on the one hand, since they’re connected to the Internet, you can use one instead of a backup provider and cut out at least one monthly bill. On the other, they serve as a great backup for your backup, so you can rest easy knowing that all the redundancies you’ve set up will keep your data safe whatever may come.
still need to take care of is that all these different devices and add-ons talk to each other, so I can switch devices yet still work away on the same file like I never moved.
Sync.com is my regular service for this kind of thing and I see no reason to change since I feel it offers a great price, lightning-fast syncs as well as zero-knowledge security which means that no one will be able to get to my data unless I allow them to. In tandem with Sync.com I’ll also be using pCloud, mainly because it has a great mobile app which I need if I’m traveling and I can’t use my laptop.