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> I've spoken to YouTubers who started off keeping backups but quickly realized it was nowhere near cost effective for them to do so. Because 1 TB drives are e
by cr0sh 8y ago
> I've spoken to YouTubers who started off keeping backups but quickly realized it was nowhere near cost effective for them to do so.
Because 1 TB drives are expensive?
I realize that wasn't always the case (look, I'm old enough to remember when a 5 MB hard drive cost close to $10k for a personal computer system) - but I still think it's a bad excuse. If the data is important enough to put up for others, then it's important enough to back up (even if only the edited and compressed version).
Today, it makes no sense at all not to keep a backup. Even using DropBox or Google Drive is plenty cheap.
Your other points do stand, however.
- mchristen 8y agoSome of the creators on Youtube are recording in RAW 8K footage. A few 1TB drives will not make a dent in their capacity needs.
- snovv_crash 8y agoYou don't need to back up all of the source material. The final product is good enough for most cases.
- plorkyeran 8y agoYou can't download the source file from youtube, so if redownloading from youtube is good enough then you clearly don't need to back up the source file either.
- sandworm101 8y agoFools and their money. If your only product is uploads to youtube, 8k is massive overkill. 4k is overkill. For the vast majority of content, even 1080p is overkill. Spend that money on microphones and editing equipment.
- jdboyd 8y agoLighting and sound are definitely more important. Under many circumstances a good sounding well lit 720 (or even 480) video is better than an average 1080 video. That does mean that 1080 or 4k is overkill though. Especial if the content includes a lot of detail shots or text.