Where do you store your content?

[Harry Of All Trades]

Internal hard drive, external backup drive, and DVD for the more epic movies. Plus I never overwrite memory cards so I at least will always have the original source video. I hate the idea of relying on YouTube as a backup source.

I don't recommend using memory cards for long term storage. After a few years sitting on the shelf, the SD cards start to suffer bit rot. The card doesn't go bad. It just that NAND flash doesn't hold its charge forever. The electrons trapped in the floating gate slowly leak out. The retention rate is about 3 to 5 years. Copying the data off and recopying back onto the card should give you another 3-5 years.

Why it does this? I suspect quantum tunneling.

 

[babyteeth4]

I don't recommend using memory cards for long term storage. After a few years sitting on the shelf, the SD cards start to suffer bit rot. The card doesn't go bad. It just that NAND flash doesn't hold its charge forever. The electrons trapped in the floating gate slowly leak out. The retention rate is about 3 to 5 years. Copying the data off and recopying back onto the card should give you another 3-5 years.

Why it does this? I suspect quantum tunneling.

Thanks for the heads-up!

 

[Bubbly Turtle]

Looks like I will be getting a 2 or 3 TB drive. Thank you guys for the answers. TB it is

 

[IftiBashir]

I have a 1TB internal SSD Blade in my MacBook, although I do not store ANY video files on it. Only program data is stored on the drive.
Instead I have a 20TB external Thunderbolt drive in a RAID5 array, which protects it from a single drive failure.
I do not keep the original raw video files - I import them all into FCP libraries, which are all stored on the external drive by default. The includes all uncompressed footage, project files, as well as all render files and exports - all neatly contained in the FCP library.