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  Posted by Juan Juig on October 25, 2019 at 7:09 pm

  Hi!

  I have an external hard drive with just a bit over 9TB of raw footage for a film, that I would like to backup to another external hard drive (even though there is another copy of it, but just to be safe).

  I am wondering, whether it is safe, to copy, and also verify all of the files with TeraCopy in one go. Could the external hard drives get over-heated because of the extended time of reading/writing the files (and therefore endanger the files that are stored on them), or are the external hard drives designed in a way, that it is impossible for this to happen? I’m guessing that if the average copying speed will be 100 MB/s, it should take around 50 hours to copy and verify (18TB all together) everything in one go.

  So, is it safe to do it in one go, or is it highly advisable to copy parts of it with pauses inbetween? If so, how much of the footage should I copy and verify in one go?

  I hope I am posting this in the right category.

  Best regards

  Stephen Smith replied 6 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Stephen Smith

  December 9, 2019 at 4:36 pm

  I know this isn’t the answer you are looking for but I would back it up on an LTO tape instead. Hard drives are not good long term storage solutions and actually need to be turned on occasionally to keep the magnetics in the hard drive operational. LTO tapes are rated to last 30 years.

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