i do not want to be a downer, but a a manual-backup Raid 1 Drive seems a little 2015 to me. It's good, it works, but there are plenty of amazing options to do the 3-2-1 fully automated / partially manual with a TB3 / 10Gb Nas + Cloud + Goodsync (or similar) + Manual Backup from current SSD work drive. Offsite / Cloud is very important.

Who looses mission critical data these days? If I was making money off the contents of my hard drives, they would be redundantly backed up everyday. The hard drives and SSDs aren’t the problem. It’s a bad data storage strategy on your behalf. As you discovered, data loss can be expensive. You understand music production but you need to step your data storage game. 7200 RPMs aren’t essential for archival purposes. Fast drives are great for working on. They have shorter lives than 4200 RPM ones for archival purposes. You can archive on slow drives when you’re not working. RAID 1 isn’t the format that works best for redundancy. Good luck.

Great vid! Quick question:does the linear phase need to be both the individual AND buss, if say you have kick mics going to a buss?

Same thing happened to me. What I do is, every artist I work with has their own 256GB drive. I back up to a NAS drive. THIS WORKS and keeps your clients ssd fresh. Hope this helps.

Givern that SSD's have a limited lifespan, in terms of number of write operations.... I only use them for content I will primarily be reading only... so sample librariies. For recording audio, I still use "old" mechanical platter drives (7200 ). But to Colt's point, you should ideally be backing up everything anyhow, be dilligent, irrespective of drive "type"... and ideally offsite/clouid-based.. . as a final safety net Manage risk :)

The tube tech is undeniable! The warm's tone sounded the closest on vocals to me... just a little less open...for the price I like it.

If someone else has commented but forgive me. The first thing is to define a recovery time objective rto and then a recovery point objective rpo. I would also suggest the biggest risk these days would be malware and ransomware. It could cause the client to lose ip intellectual property over their work

Shoutout to you doing the right thing by your clients. But this video is scary. I have 3 external hard drives oh no

I don't get it, you said you had a backup drive - they both got broken at the same time?

Data isn't data unless it's backed up twice.

ProTools is not developing. It is almost the same in 2024 as in 2004... They did captured the market and still making money. That's all. If you don't have ProTools hardware you dont need this software at all. Use reaper, S1, MuLab, Cubase, Live, Samplitude and so on, but avoide ProTools.

I had my 2TB kontakt SSD hard drive break like two weeks ago, what a f*cking nightmare

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Never Ever Never ever ever ever trust any ONE Harddrive. If you only have one backup………….YOU DONT HAVE A BACKUP!! Cloud is too affordable to rely ONLY on a physical harddrive. Have multiple cloud storage accounts and multiple hard drives. I mean….what the hell else are you keep your data on?!???? And as far as music tracks go….stem-out your tracks and also label the parts example bass/synth/plug-in/patch name and expect the MIDI Also, get a drive indexing app so that you can search by file name, not just artist or song or having to rely on your memory.

100 points for Made in the USA! What a phenomenal reverb, though, wow!

*****OFF TOPIC On KZfaq, have you had any issues with people complaining that they were no longer subscribed to you and had to re-subscribe and they know they didn’t unsubscribe? I just noticed today while watching your hard drive video that I was no longer subscribed and had to subscribe again. *****

I use a Windows laptop because, like many other folks I don't have a Mac.

I wanted to share my solution for backups. I have 2 m.2 ssds in my PC, 1 for OS/DAW/Plugins (Western Digital Black) and 1 for Audio/Sample (Samsung 990). The whole Audio/Sample Drive is backed up to the cloud (Microsoft OneDrive) and backs up as I work. If I'm on the road I work off my external m.2 ssd (Samsung 990) in a fancy enclosure (Asus ROG Arion), at the end of the session the whole protools session folder gets uploaded to the cloud (Microsoft OneDrive for me) and shared with the client. At the same time, the session downloads to my PC. This gives me a working drive (external ssd), a physical backup (my PC), a cloud backup and potentially an off-site backup (client download). Due to paranoia, I do also have an archive m.2 ssd drive, that is also backed up to the cloud (Google Drive).

If you're business or livelihood is dependent on file storage, set up a RAID on NAS, running on a virtually free old junk PC (from 10 years ago). Software to run RAID/NAS like TruNas or OMV are free. Also don't backup once every 3 days. Let it sync every hour. All hard drive will fail, eventually.

Just unplug ethernet from computer. Dont use cracked plugins. Defragment disk monthly. Delete duplicate files. Hard drives do indeed fail. But we good over here

Disk HDDs come in three speeds, 5600, 7200, and 10,000. Speed effects latency but also noise and wear life (heat, etc). Latency isn't really an issue for basic back up tasks in the background. However, I agree, 7200 is the best choice. 10,000 is considerably quicker but disk life is affected and again, as a backup drive, the latency isn't really an issue to pay so much extra for.

one quick question about your monitor... do you use it with the native resolution or High DPI mode ?

Use Asustor NAS systems

I decided to take my craft to the next level and I have Nashville constantly on my mind as a destination. I pulled up your video and I will have to say that you definitely made me feel good about my decision to go and seek out my career in music. With the insight and experience you have gained from living in music city absolutely helped me to understand and grasp what I am going to need to be prepared for and what to expect from this career path and the reassurance I have gained from the fact that there is motivated musicians driven to work hard with other artists to achieve the number one thing I focused on most of my life and that is entertaining people who have been working hard to provide for their family’s and choose to come out and allow me and my band to be a positive and therapeutic presence music does for their body,mind, and spirit! Excellent video! Hopefully I will get a chance to work with you

I Like your new video Intro music ! Sounds epic ! Again a great video ! I have to check all of your videos I'm sure

That Tube-Tech just sounds epic

so nice ! I'm new to Pro Tools so working for 4 weeks in pro tools and it's not easy but it's stunning how good the editing is and all the other stuff.. it fits to my workflow more and more.. I bought the avid mbox studio with pro tools studio perpetual version inclusive for around 700 euro... best deal in my life. Now I like your videos even more because I can see how you rock in pro tools and can try to learn as much as I can.

The bare minimum should be a portable raid 1. If a young artist doesn’t have the extra money they could use Dropbox. Just pull the session you are working on off the cloud and onto your box while you are working on it. When you are done drag it back to your Dropbox folder. If you make your files only available online you don’t have to get reamed by Apples memory prices. That’s how I work when I travel. My studio is an entirely different monster.

This video sold me on getting one a year ago. Love it so much

Try the free plugin fresh air by slate audio, I think you can get similar results. If you don't think it is up this alley I still think you will like it. I like it on guitars.

I have had a few hard drives fail, and it cost me an arm and a leg to recover "most" of the data. I was not aware that the SSD was non - recoverable. Thank you for posting this video and information. Having experienced the great pain and agony of losing so many important files, photos, etc., I will be making changes ASAP. Thank You

I had a pc for 4 years ranned smooth with pro tools and fl I’m looking into Mac now because my motherboard on my pc went out screen black

Linus Tech Tips has some excellent videos on how you should do file backups. Highly recommend looking into their videos

Please dont move here. All the growth has destroyed what used to be nashville. We are full. Got no more room.

Not to be that guy, but I had a raid that was incorrectly connected to each bay in manufacture. Everything was fine till a drive failed and the software wanted a blank drive. Then it simply mangled all the data over all the drives as it was incorrectly spanning. Killed the lot. If you have a lot of data tape is still king.

I make electronic music so I don't necessarily work with clients but my solution to this problem is store everything on DropBox and then have DropBox make a local copy on a 6TB hard drive. That way any time the hard drive is connected to my computer it syncs files. When I know I'm going to be traveling I have an SSD I load specific sessions or project files on to then I make sure I put them back on the backup hard drive when I get home. If I happen to start a new project while im traveling I'll save it on the SSD and upload the file to Dropbox at the same time to. Not sure if this is a system that would work for everyone but it's worked for me since 2017 and I've never lost a session file as a result.

Thanks brother. Can you critique a mix on my channel if you get a chance? Liked and subscribed!

RAID 10 with physical HDD. I've seen music producers insist on getting SDDs for their zero noise benefit. Get 4 drives and set them up in a RAID 10, route your audio gear to another room, or put the drives in a RAID enclosure and put the enclosure in another room for zero noise. Mine are in a water cooled enclosure and noise is pretty much nil. WD Black drives are pretty quiet.

ALWAYS have backups ALWAYS 2 Backups plus the originals 1 of those should be off-site

Ive been there several times LOL I work off an M.2 NVME drive, back up to an archive HDD drive internally THEN i have 2 of those docks that i backup again to onto sata Enterprise HDD's (they are built tougher and made to run longer). I let go of the RAID i had..it's getting antiquated and there's still a risk of loosing your data if one of the drives fail depending on the RAID type you have. Several of my friends are also backing up to "cloud" so they have an offsite backup, so I'm considering that as well.

I've benefitted a ton from your experience and skill, so allow me to take this opportunity to pay that back :) My day job is in IT, and I've been at it 25 years. Simply put, what you're proposing to do, while better than what you did before, isn't enough. No IT professional worth their paycheck would allow the business they work for to continue to operate with this kind of backup strategy - there's too much business risk. Your backups need to be a) redundant, b) distributed and c) automated. Redundant means that data is stored in more than one place . You're using RAID - check. This will protect you against the failure of a single drive. Distributed means that your information is in more than one geographic location. If you get robbed, or there's a fire, or a power surge blows out your RAID array, or someone spills coffee in the RAID box, what you're doing won't protect you. If, for example, you replicate those backups to the cloud (or another physical location) and something horrible happens like fire, then you'll be able to recover your data from the off-site copy. Automated means you don't have to do anything in order for your data to be replicated to multiple places in multiple physical locations. This should be obvious - if you forget to take your backups you're exposed. You really should investigate a NAS. And when I say "you", I mean "anyone who makes a living or relies financially on large amounts of computer data". A NAS is sort of like the big brother to your RAID box - it's an enclosure that can accept a number of hard drives and can organize those drives into a RAID array. There are two key differences between what you're setting up and a NAS - a NAS is available over a network, and a NAS appropriate for your use case has built in features for organizing and (critically) replicating data. The best fits for your purpose will be devices that include software you can install on your computers that will automatically replicate files that have changed to the NAS. You then configure the NAS to replicate everything stored on it (or at least the stuff that's critical) to the cloud. I personally use a Synology NAS, but there are other manufacturers that offer similar devices with similar capabilities. I've found the Synology Drive client that takes the backups to be stable and non-intrusive enough to run on my DAW while I'm recording, so you shouldn't have to worry about performance or stability. Since you do a lot of video work as well, I'd recommend a pretty hefty device for you so that you have plenty of room to expand. Something like the DS-1821+, and then as many hard drives as you need to give you the amount of storage you require. That storage can be split up and organized however you like and shared among every machine in your house. There is a cost to all this, likely in the 3-ish thousand dollar range plus your cloud storage subscription. On the other hand, you said in the video that a drive failure cost you 6 months of extra effort and the cost for all of the session players to re-do their parts. Back of the envelope, that's 26 weeks times say 15 hours per week times say $60/hr rate is $23,400 for your time plus the session players, so lets say roughly this drive failure cost you 35 grand. This is the kind of setup that a qualified IT professional would implement for a small professional business like a law firm or doctor's office. I recommended something similar for my cousin's photography business. Usually when I give this speech someone chimes in with other homebrewed solutions, Google Drive, etc. Those are all better than nothing, but they still don't offer full protection for all failure scenarios. As you've unfortunately learned, a single failure can cost you dearly. I'd be happy to help you (or frankly anyone) get something set up, so anyone who might be interested in getting a quality backup and recovery strategy in place please leave a comment. I promise I'm not looking to send you a bill, I just want to help :)

It's a good idea to wire a good preamp, a good EQ, a good compressor, etc. Best of each.

RAID is not a backup!

A local (fast) RAID vault (mirrored drives, RAID 1) is definitely a must have, and then also regular frequent backups to the Cloud for long-term storage is a must (eg. AWS, Azure, Google, iCloud, etc.). It's totally worth it to pay a little extra money each month to get a bunch of disk space on one of these big Cloud providers to back up your data. If there is a fire or flood at your house, or a robbery, or some other natural disaster, there is no substitute for having all of your critical data backed up in the Cloud.

The health of harddrives is monitored. The health of cheap SSD's is not. Soooo, for storage on long term... when you put them in a drawer, harddrives are better. A damaged harddrive, connected over USB usually shortly comes to life so you can save the data.

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Totally agree on the (at least) 3 copies strategy. I use 2 back up drives for each active work HD. Alternating between the drives on each consecutive back up and buying new ones every couple of years, storing the old drives in a safe place. I highly recommend using the Carbon Copy Cloner software if you’re on Mac OS. It gives you a lot of different possible back up schemes. Including checking the integrity and replacing corrupted files on the back ups. About a year ago I transfered my entire digital music collection, about 1,1 TB, to a new HD, using the regular copy function in Finder. After the transfer there were over 200 GB missing! It was easy to fix this with CCC, but a lesson learned. It should be noted that RAID has several different levels, involving different numbers of HD’s involved, depending on your needs and financial situation. ✌✌

Very informative video! i get the concept now!

are we listening to just the OH mics when listening to the drums or is this a summation of all the mics?

They literally popped up on my feed on IG. I’m about to purchase two.