I am taking various videos of my daily life, which I store in an external HDD. I know that HDD are the best medium for storing files because, by being mechanic, they are more sensible to repetitive operations, while only storing files doesn’t require many of them.
I started to have some small ideas about how to use these videos, and because I didn’t want to loose them I started a vault inside my external HDD, so that I can link the footage to the ideas, and I can also find connections between ideas more easily, and this will be essential for writing the final screenplay.
This said, I’m wondering how much I will stress my HDD by running an Obsidian vault inside it. Because Obsidian automatically save notes while writing, do you think this could seriously harm the HDD on the long run?
I’m asking because I’ve already lost an HDD and had to spend 500$ to retrieve the videos I needed. I know that professional videomakers uses other tools but I’m not professional and I can’t have a better storage.
Your external HDD, is it an old style mechanical (spinning platters) disk or a SDD (non-volatile memory)?
Generally mechanical HDD do not have a write wear out time like a SDD. Unless you are pulling the cable out without properly disconnecting the drive (so allowing the OS to sync the file system before power goes) I cannot believe you are destroying a HDD.
I am new to Obsidian so I cannot comment on how it organises it’s writes and the affect on a SDD.
I wouldn’t do that.
Make a vault on your (preferably SSD) home/install drive and symbolic-link the topmost folder of your videos on your external drive anywhere to your vault (it doesn’t even need to be an attachment folder location). That’ll provide easy internal linking.
I can only guess that the reading of your external files is done on demand. Meaning they are read on startup and when you are embedding the videos.
