is the SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD 1TB enough to store and run the Komplete 14 ultimate Library

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  • NickVegas
    NickVegas Member Posts: 63 Member
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/134914#Comment_134914

    Thank you for this!

    I was looking for different backup options and came across BackBlaze. do you think this is an adequate substitute for getting a physical hard drive to backup my mac? I figured since I am already daisy chaining enough things to my mac book's two ports, off site might be best for full system backups?

  • NickVegas
    NickVegas Member Posts: 63 Member
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/134935#Comment_134935

    this makes sense

    since I only have two ports with my macbook (M1 2020) I have a thunderbolt hub. I think they say each of its three ports have its own power/is completely independent of each other. Do you think this could qualify as good ports?

  • LostInFoundation
    LostInFoundation Member Posts: 4,466 Expert

    I was talking more about people plugging SSD to old USB A ports.

    The USB C ports of your Mac should be quite good. I can’t express about the ones on your hub, but being USB C is already a good sign

  • BIF
    BIF Member Posts: 965 Guru
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/135146#Comment_135146

    Backblaze is cloud backup. If you have gigabit internet, you might be able to make a go of it.

    But if you're still plodding along with 24 MBPS, probably it won't work well for full disk images.

    Some backup companies have a service where they'll send you a hard drive for you to take your first full backup image locally with USB or similar. Then you would ship the drive back to them and they would populate their farm with it.

    After that, your incremental and differential backups would just be written to their repository in the cloud.

    I am an oldskool mainframer. Yeah, they're all using cloud for backups now, but for my own stuff, I'd rather stick with local storage (a hard drive attached to my system via SATA or USB). I can still guarantee that a backup drive with an air-gap (aka, sitting in my Pelikan case or on a shelf in a closet) is a valid backup in the event that your local backups all got corrupted somehow. An old backup is better than no backup!

    That said, Macrium Reflect does have protections against ransomware encrypting its backups without your knowledge. Their implementation is quite clever.

    I don't have any business relationship with Macrium Reflect or the company, etcetera. I found them when I was having troubles with Acronis Trueimage backups going missing. That may have been 10+ years ago. Reflect has been reliable for me, so I have had no need to look at or analyze other backup tools.

  • Simchris
    Simchris Member Posts: 325 Pro

    Couple quick notes:

    1) we are using WD Blue 4TB drives for sample libraries with zero issues on both macOS and Windows machines with NI / UVI / EastWest / etc. sample libraries.

    2) be careful choosing Sandisk Extreme external drives as some were blown at discount due to defect and high fail rate.

  • reffahcs
    reffahcs Member Posts: 848 Guru
    edited February 28

    I have a Crucial P3 Plus in an external Thunderbolt 4 NVMe enclosure for my Mac. It's pretty darn fast. I've been using it for almost a year now without issues. I have my home folder and all my music stuff (NI, Arturia etc..) on it as well as my small Mac Steam library. Highly recommend that drive. It used to be a bit cheaper, but it's gone up a bit in price recently.

    Like others have mentioned, it's worth getting more than you think you need even if it's just to save yourself the headache of having to upgrade sooner than expected. I didn't think I would come close to filling my 4TB NVMe, yet here I am wondering if I should buy another and put them in a RAID. I've used about 75% of my total drive space.

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