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eyeangle

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Jan 2, 2014
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Melbourne, Australia
I want to keep my Mac Pro 5,1 constantly backing up. It has 3 internal hard drives.

1) 1TB SSD Boot Drive
2) 2TB HDD
3) 4TB HDD

- There are spare SATA bays inside the mac which I could do a Time Machine or RAID 1 backup, but that won't be safe if my Mac gets stolen.

- I could have a network attached through the powerlines in my house with a NAS Drive locked and hidden at the other end of the house, and use Time Machine to backup (I believe Synology DiskStation can do this), but this isn't protected from fire burning the house down.

- I could buy some Google Drive storage but it costs A$125/month for 10TB- too expensive for me. And if a file corrupts on my computer it will upload the corrupted file and I lose the original. This is why I prefer Time Machine. Also, my upload speed is 4.5Mbps.

- I had the idea of having a NAS Drive at my parents house who live 150km away and have my mac hard drives constantly backing up to it over the internet (if this is even possible?? still, I'm limited by my upload speed)...

So I'm out of ideas. What do you guys suggest? I do video editing and will most likely need to backup more, larger files in the future so there's that too.
 
How likely is your Mac to be stolen? I went with the internal option as my likelihood is low here but everywhere is different. You could look into a Kensington lock for it if the 5,1 supports that. I'm pretty sure the 30" Cinema Display I have at home has that slot but not sure if the actual 5,1 tower does too.
 
How likely is your Mac to be stolen? I went with the internal option as my likelihood is low here but everywhere is different. You could look into a Kensington lock for it if the 5,1 supports that. I'm pretty sure the 30" Cinema Display I have at home has that slot but not sure if the actual 5,1 tower does too.
TBH getting it stolen is very unlikely in my neighbourhood, and I lock up whenever I leave the house. I've been living here 25 years and never been robbed haha ... I guess I just wanted to know my options.
 
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