On Monday, 19 August 2019 20:28:12 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message


Dunno, I don't bother with 2.5" drives, I buy the 3.5" drives and 8TB
drives
most recently.

What do you actually need to back up ?

Its not for backup, thats the stuff recorded on the PVR that I havent got
around to watching. We do go thru our summer with less stuff worth
watching being broadcast than I want to watch so can watch stuff that
I hadn't got around to watching previously at that time.

I don't find that much worth recording, and most that I do record I've seen before and when I have watched something I delete it.
Of the 4 hours on TV I watched last night I recorded 3 hours of it then watched it all last night recorded last night. Sure my tIvo is 74% full but I;ve had it 4 years or so and never run out of space I;ve plenty on there I want to watch mines a 500GB if I had 8TB I would record more crap and I might spend more time watching crap too , which is something I want to aviod.
PLus there;s plenty of catchup channels here in the UK.
I can pretty much watch any fools and horses episode I want it's reperated over and over again, as is star trek TNBG is on it's 3rd rerun this year IIRC, I don't really need to record them.


I should really got thru the older stuff that I have never got around
to watching and likely never will watch, but those 8TB drives are so
****ing cheap that its not worth my time to save so little money.

I don;t find 8TB drives ****ing cheap, they are about twice the price of 4TB
and I wouldnlt spend even half that to store stuff that'll be repeated the follwing week or somethime day, or I can get from catchup.




Some if it;s their job to backup data I can understadn but the average
home users, sure I back up pictures of my cat and gig's I go to but I
can't think of anything that would be seriously life changing.

I do take photos of what bits go with what device when I buy
something but that about all that would be a nuisance if I lost.
Dont use those photos much tho so not the end of the world
if I lost them.

I;d agree but most buy backup drives to back stuff up.