Storage of files help

[rando]

First off, does your only copy of these files reside across the 3TB & 4TB drives?  If yes, making a backup copy of them for local storage is your first priority.  There are a few questions you need to ask beforehand.  Such as what your expected rate of music buying is and how much of your collection is listened to regularly.  Keep in mind spinning discs lose performance and secure storage ability above a certain percentage of their capacity when settling on drive sizes across both primary and local backup copies.  As well I'm not sure any 10TB drives at the consumer level can be counted on for long term storage or primary use.

 

It appears you are asking what the best long term solution unlikely to be instantly behind the times is.  Many here had been using cloud storage until the storer decided they were asking too little by a quarter or better.  In effect you want a working copy, a local backup, and at least one offsite copy.  How to go about that in your case is still an open question.  Give some thought to the questions in the first paragraph so we can more ably lend advice. 

[rando]

[rando]

That recommendation comes off old data and disregards considerable changes that have occurred.  HGST are no longer the quality they once were.  The simple answer to where the quality went is away with the quantity of smartphones.  The even simpler one is you need to do one hell of a lot of research and get lucky enough to find someone who will even respond when you ask the right questions to bring home some promise of quality. 

 

Nowadays you need to chase down a very specific model number with an even more specific build date and  batch number that was made in X factory instead of Y factory.  That is just within a single product line which you may nor may not even be able to buy.  Hard truth here is the factory direct store, Newegg, your local computer store, very much stores like Best Buy, industrial supplier, and anywhere else you can come by white or grey market drives will have different model numbers.  Hundreds of them are out there with slight and very important differences in now the drive is built, packaged, or changed to meet one set of legal regulations that differ from another destinations. 

 

Is that specific enough for you danco or did you count on an easy answer?  If the best solution isn't what you want I suggest you take the advice of internet strangers and hope for the best with that make and model in your home.