Saturday 6th October 2018 | Leave a comment I didn’t want to splurge on a 4TB SSD hard disk drive, but I need to secure my data. I have tried to procrastinate my hefty purchase for over 2 years, but my digital data is increasingly important to me. Much of my recent space hog is related to video tutorials, asset files, source codes, eBooks, DRM-free games, ISO images and 4K videos. I like to download and archive copies of digital assets that I buy and own.My original intention was to re-organise my eBook library on my smaller 512GB SSD for hot-swapping between workstations. I have previously tried to settle with a microSD card attached to a USB stick, but I need reliability and high-speed data transfer speeds. I also opted for the SATA 3 over the NVMe, so I can hot swap drives using an external HDD enclosure without damaging the physical connectors at every re-connection.I spent the past 3 weeks organising my entire digital assets. I am using mainstream cloud platforms from select providers to host secondary asset files. I am also using a specialised cloud platform which exercises a zero-knowledge policy on its service. Quite simply, I don’t want said company to scan or snoop around my digital assets in the cloud – and I am happy to pay for that privilege. Sadly, mainstream cloud platforms can scan and snoop. I am thinking towards future business endeavours, so I want to keep certain things close to my chest.Essentially, I am choosing not to place all my eggs inside one basket, but to utilise local and external data backup pools. I am also deciding whether to go overboard and resort to hardware or software-based encryption on hard drives. I am leaning on the latter. I’ll thank myself in the future for the inconvenience.I have never spent so much time creating granular folders and directories simply to arrange and organise every segment of data that I own. I still need to retrieve data from my LaCie, which is a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) – a Mac-only partition – but I am not desperate as yet!~RichardConnectTweetRelated