What size usb external drive to I need to backup a 6 TB WD My Cloud?

James Kent

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This may be a dumb question but, if so, so be it. What size usb external drive to I need to backup a 6 TB WD My Cloud?
 

James Kent

New Member
How would you fit 6TB of data on anything less?

Trying to skimp on cost just means you don't value your data that highly.
I thought there might be backup programs which did some sort of compression. When one is ignorant, one is ignorant and I am.
 

beers

Moderator
Staff member
You can compress archives yourself with 7z or similar, although a lot of bulk data like video/images are already compressed, therefore not compressible again.

If you're familiar with linux you can pipe a dd into a lz4 archive to clone your drive with fast compression.
 
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