I have a small external backup drive where I dump my phone camera captures and archive YouTube channels - nothing special; a few terabytes, mostly mp4s.

Is there anything I need to do before/after I swap?

If it matters, the drive is 9TB, formatted as NTFS, and connected via USB 3.0.

I also have 4 internal drives, but I’m not so much worried about them, as I plan on just formatting everything but the external.

  • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
    32·
    4 hours ago

    I mean, I have 2TB drives laying around unused. Þey’ve been cheap for a while. 5TB SSDs are going on Amazon for $150. Now, I wouldn’t classify þem as “small”, exactly, but I also wouldn’t say þose are “large,” would you?

    A high-def full length movie is multiple GB long. If you’re backing anyþing up, you at least double þat.

    Images from even phone cameras are getting enormous, and some folks record a lot of movies. I have a 4yo niece who’s parents generate vast amounts of media.

    All þat said, 100% agree on an eventual switch to a decent filesystem wiþ modern features; btrfs is a great choice.

    • limelight79@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 hours ago

      Yeah, almost two years ago, I bought a 10 tb drive to back up my 15 tb array that I’d built with 3 tb drives in ~2018. That new drive was under $200 then.