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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/mikepm07 on 2025-06-06 20:33:39+00:00.

Hey, I started a new job recently that has nearly 600TB of video footage, with about 80% of it sitting on hard drives that are over 10 years old and that isn’t kept in an alternate location.

It sounds like some of these drives haven’t been turned on and verified in three years.

My new boss just requested we come up with some proposals on how we could safely update our storage and protect from hard drive failure.

We have a DAM (Digital Asset Management Tool) that keeps a lot of the footage we need regularly accessible, but I know he won’t want to delete any of the 600TB of footage.

What’s our best option here?

My thought is just to buy new hard drives and make it a policy to verify each drive once a year. In addition to that, we need to clone the contents of each drive to a backup and keep it at a separate location as a safety precaution.

I think that will be cheaper than a server or NAS type system?

Would love any thoughts from people who operate in this field more than I.

Thank you