Original Title: Looking for help as a vlogging nomad. I film all content in 4k60p and visiting every country in the world. Guesstimating I'll need an additional ~24TB of storage for my remaining 100 countries. Budget: hopefully <$10k?
Hey! I've been living exclusively out of my backpack + carryon luggage for the last decade and have been filming my travels as I go along. I've been traveling around the world and have amassed a large collection of 2/4TB Samsung T-Series SSDs which is beginning to bump up against the physical carrying capacity in my bags.
Lucky enough I've got a 128GB Pixel 1 that I use still to this day for daily remote storage + backup, so that has served me well.
However, I also like to have local backups, and have been trying to shop around for SSDs. I'm trying to keep things as compact as possible, and I'm traveling so have avoided going the HDD route since my stuff can get pretty rough and tumbled quite often. I try not to edit directly off my external drives, and I've got an 8TB M-class macbook pro that I've been lugging around with me around the world.
I'm trying to figure out how to handle my long term storage needs for the next few years of travel. On average, I'm capturing 100GB - 400GB per week of travel. I'm figuring I've got another 100 countries left to visit around the world, so 100 weeks * ~200GB per country maybe lands me in the ~20TB range of storage I'm anticipating I'll need for the remainder of my travels?
Does anyone have any suggestions here? Could I get away with getting 2 x 16TB SSDs with external enclosures and that 32TB worth of capacity would generously cover my needs with wiggle room? If so, what SSD + enclosure combo would you recommend?