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but my final illustration files tend to be 1 or 2 gigs each so it will fill up

23 Jul 08:00

not a lot at the moment. 2 SSDs 512G total, plus a 1TB drive external

23 Jul 08:00

I hadn't thought of switching to SSDs completely, I was figuring on having a high capacity HD for storage and an SSD system drive, with a scratch disk for painting if I could afford it.

23 Jul 07:59

How many gigs of flash storage do you have on your PC, Amit?

23 Jul 07:57

Yeah, I don't want to use the cloud exclusively cause it is entirely out of our control.

23 Jul 07:57

When Trump destroys the internet, then whatcha gonna do?

23 Jul 07:56

Yeah I don't trust cloud storage enough yet to migrate fully. I doubt I will. That stuff is totally out of your control

23 Jul 07:56

thats also a good idea. at least if you can't afford external hard drives

23 Jul 07:55

most important files I keep in the cloud as well, and on external an external drive. Triple redundancy

23 Jul 07:55

I'm old fashioned, I prefer local backups. Also my internet is kinda shitty sometimes, I don't want to rely on it.

23 Jul 07:55

Heliux

I spring for the backup through google drive

23 Jul 07:55

oh I only use SSD's now

23 Jul 07:54

Hmm, so you want to use SSDs only in conjunction with HDs for permanent storage.

23 Jul 07:54

exactly zip! Material stuff in the end, even our digital artwork is really just stuff and isn't important. Take care of yourself and your health though! Sorry to hear your troubles there

23 Jul 07:53

ahaha yeah I guess so. I'll guess I just look at this as startng point for something new...

23 Jul 07:53

with magnetic drives you can often recover some stuff

23 Jul 07:53

SSDs apparently catastrophically fail. So when they go, they go

23 Jul 07:52

I was pretty zen at the time. Just remember your best work is probably ahead of you not behind you :)

23 Jul 07:52

the importance of backup backups

23 Jul 07:52

I've been wondering about these SSDs, though, what kind of failure modes do they have?

23 Jul 07:52

Well it proves the importance of backups.

23 Jul 07:52

Wow that is some serious bullshit. I'd be furious

23 Jul 07:52

I realised it wasn't a big deal. I needed a break at the time anyway so it worked out haha

23 Jul 07:51

That sucks man.

23 Jul 07:51

Yeah some (probably young) punks broke in and tried to start up the car to steal it. They failed but screwed up the ignition as they went, so decided to steal all my shit. It was valentines day and I had planned on taking my gf on a picnic. lol We had the picnic in the parking garage waiting for the tow truck lol. Yeah I lost everything...all my music of 15 years, music I made, writing and all art hah

23 Jul 07:51

I have one hooked up to my Mac right now, and a good thing too, 'cause the HD is several years old and I'm sure I can't trust it not to conk on me one of these days.

23 Jul 07:51

will do

23 Jul 07:50

Get an external HD dude. :(

23 Jul 07:50

Yeah my library and all my started study files are gone. And I build up that library over serveral years

23 Jul 07:50

So you had to rebuild all from zero again?

23 Jul 07:49

That sucked, Amit, some guys took it from the back of your car?

23 Jul 07:49