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Why do you keep 5-7 external drives connected at all times instead of a NAS with all that storage, RAID5/6 or equivalent, and 10 Gbps network interface? Also th
by AdrianB1 4y ago
Why do you keep 5-7 external drives connected at all times instead of a NAS with all that storage, RAID5/6 or equivalent, and 10 Gbps network interface? Also the 2-5TB drivers in the drawer look like a pretty big risk of failure, the size suggests they are all old drives. I would rather build a NAS with 12TB drives (cost effective, larges is quite expensive) and plenty of redundancy, maybe a 0.5TB nVME or SATA SSD as cache for better speed. The only problem with such a setup is speed, unless you go for multiple RAID5/6 arrays the performance will be quite limited.
- prawn 4y agoBecause I work with those drives from multiple locations and don't want to cart around the NAS box (which I use as an extra backup instead). Home, office, location, while away, etc. Current method is survivable, it's just a lot to keep track of. Maybe there's an alternative I'm not considering though. The 2-4 connected SSDs are usually projects I'm actively working intensely on that day or week, or they're annual Lightroom drives where I still need to access 2021-23 pretty regularly. The 2-3 platter drives have slightly older projects, or edited/rendered files that I need to regularly send/shuffle/folio/etc but that don't need to be quite as fast. Or they're drives I'm assembling to post out.