One of the best deals around Black Friday is always storage drives and media cards.
Many times, the deals are on previous gen tech, but the prices can’t be beat.

If you have ever had a storage drive crash, you know what I mean. Back your work up as many times/places as you feel comfortable. Paid assignments need a triple back-up in my mind.

For physical drive storage, highly recco a RAID drive.
What is that?
Basically, an enclosure that house drives, HD or SSD in multiple of 2.
Why 2? In the most basic set-up, you store your files on 2 drives, so you have an immediate back-up.
You do need to buy 4 drives so this time of year is perfect to load up.

Personally, I have 4 RAID drives attached to my computer. And those connected drives allow the cloud services to always be uploading. See choices below.

The OWC enclosures are a great option, and I have been using them for years.

Of course you need to populate it with the drives of your choice: HD or SSD.

Unfortunately, many companies who have come into this space, have indeed gone out of business, or changed their product line
One of my favorites, the Wiebetech is only available on eBay currently.

What I liked about Wiebetech is the fact that they don’t use any proprietary software that will cause you pain if they go out of business. Drives in, drives out.

On the laptop the SSD of choice is the Samsung T9

When you don’t have the built in SSD is nearing capacity, this is a perfect solution to connect to your laptop.

Available in size from 1TB-4TB. Big sales right now at the link.
Save $140 right now on the 4TB 

Some folks like to save the media card as its own storage and use a fresh one per assignment. Stock up now with your brand of choice!

Personally, I go Delkin Black

or OWC for my CFExpress cards.

The speeds are blazing, and have never had a crash, with either.

Of course the above solutions are only the physical.

For cloud back-up there are 2 systems I recommend:
Crash Plan  and BackBlaze
BackBlaze is only $99 a year,

and Crash Plan is $88 a year.

BB has not raised prices for a few years, and the storage options are massive.
I currently back-up 28TB to the cloud and these costs are nominal for peace of mind.
Take a test drive and see which one works best for you.
The test is what would it look like if you had your drives crash, and you had to recreate it all from the cloud.

It’s all pretty straight forward, just remember how critical your back-ups are, and chose your method and products well.

I still have all of my negatives, which never get corrupted and scan when needed. Truth is when you shoot film it’s about $50 a roll: cost of the film, processing, scan.

Happy with all the TB of digital, just need to protect it!