External Hard Drive

[BrettTaylorYT]

i currently use Google Photos and my laptop to store all my video files. That is starting to fill up extremely quickly so I’m in the market for external hard drive. I’m afraid I’ll take up the memory of a 1TB too fast so I’m leaning towards 2TB. OR I can get a 4TB one for only about $20-$40 more. Is 4TB too excessive?

 

[Seansie]

i currently use Google Photos and my laptop to store all my video files. That is starting to fill up extremely quickly so I’m in the market for external hard drive. I’m afraid I’ll take up the memory of a 1TB too fast so I’m leaning towards 2TB. OR I can get a 4TB one for only about $20-$40 more. Is 4TB too excessive?

4TB is a lot...seriously. However, if you think you need it, go for it. Especially if it isn’t too much more money wise. You say your laptop is filling up fast? How much space does it have?

 

[BrettTaylorYT]

4TB is a lot...seriously. However, if you think you need it, go for it. Especially if it isn’t too much more money wise. You say your laptop is filling up fast? How much space does it have?

My laptop has 1TB (maybe 500gb I don’t entirely remember) of memory but I also have more things on my laptop besides my YouTube stuff and I’d rather have everything on something separate so if my laptop for some reason craps out I have backups of all the footage and everything.

 

[MijacOnAir]

Hello mate!
Everything is up to the kind of videos/projects you are doing. From my experience, never is a lot of storage. I recently bought a 4TB seagate expansion to have it on the desk. Just incremental backups for now but it is filling really quickly. Same thing for videos, if you are storing your editable stuff plus the footage and raw files you are going to end needing lots of space in the meantime.

The question for now I think is how much you are willing to spend. This 4TB I got was £99 (a 3.5 inch external drive), which I think it is not bad at all for storing your stuff (quality/price). Of course it is going to be full eventually but... this is always our story, bro

Cheers!

 

[Xynudu]

Definitely get at least 2 TB. The main thing is to check for any reliability issues with the model you're considering etc. Don't want all those files getting lost in space

I have a 2 TB Seagate external drive and it's been good. You soon fill them up so for the extra few bucks I would get the 4 TB.

 

[bigattck]

why not just delete some never used or will ever upload videos, if its already on youtube then you already do not need it.

 

[MijacOnAir]

why not just delete some never used or will ever upload videos, if its already on youtube then you already do not need it.

That is not a bad idea if your budget is tight to buy a drive but sometimes and for specific channels/user needs, it's always good to save the whole projects in case you want to revisit, create a compilation video, revamp something old with more detail and control every possible variable (not the same as DL your uploaded video and use it again in a new edit with the bad compression and the lack of freedom of multitrack editing)...

Good point though

 

[Hirudov]

4TB is a lot...seriously.

It depends. if you record in 4K, 4TB will be filled pretty quickly and its not much. But it is better to spread your backups on several sources because having all the backups on a single 10TB HDD example and if you by accident drop it, the feeling of losing 10 TB of data won't be that great.

 

[Mister20seven]

I think it's depending on what and how much of your material you are saving. I bought a 4TB external HD and if got 2TB left after saving all the files of 3 vacations and some random stuff filmed with my GoPro. I don't know if I'm ever going to use these files again, but at least I have the possibility to do so

 

[BrettPowell]

I have a 2TB, and I’ve used less that half, all my footage is recorded in 4K, and I have everything I’ve ever filmed or taken photos of with my drone on there... I also have a backup of all my YT videos on there, in my opinion, 2TB is enough