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Dear All
My home storage situation is in an absolute mess. I attached a flow chart of the current system. I've recently had a failure of both my iMac 27inch (graphics card) and subsequent Drobo Raid drive (may be recoverable at some point) which has potentially resulted in the loss of some precious family photos. This is all down to my failed back-up solution.
I'm now ready to spend "some" money on this - looking hopefully to keep this to below £1500. I have recently purchased a new MacBook Pro M1 - which has further added to my problems - as I'm having major compatibility issues with my Lacie drives - no Lacie software raid support at the moment, plus issues with thunderbolt 2 to 3 adaptors etc...
I also want to be able to set up a system where by the family photo's and videos can be held on a drive accessible (wifi) by my wife and daughter who run different platforms. Hence I'm looking a NAS solutions with Cloud back-up for Family Content and Important work images.
I'm a photographer by trade and run a busy "in-house" studio for a large publishing company. All our images are backed up by Synology boxes and other enterprise systems including cloud. Data transfer is done over a Gigabit connection which is quite slow but it's for back-up so acceptable.
I'm now looking for a robust system at home that has expandability and hopefully a degree of future proofing. I can totally see how a NAS box would work at home - but my issue is ultimately speed. In an ideal world I'd just chuck all my data onto a large NAS box and slowly sort through and catalogue everything over a period of time either from my home office or over wifi. Do I keep a DAS attached RAID drive like the Lacie and then just back-up to a NAS box or look for an all in one solution.
I probably have about 4-5tb worth of Data that needs sorting and then a whole load of jobs from work that I need to edit down and store long term. I Have been looking a something like the QNAP 453d and BTE that allow direct access as well as ethernet connection, but my gut tells me that I'd fit into the Synology space better.
Suggestions - thoughts appreciated.
Philip
This is how I have mapped out my potential solution - happen for any advice.
My home storage situation is in an absolute mess. I attached a flow chart of the current system. I've recently had a failure of both my iMac 27inch (graphics card) and subsequent Drobo Raid drive (may be recoverable at some point) which has potentially resulted in the loss of some precious family photos. This is all down to my failed back-up solution.
I'm now ready to spend "some" money on this - looking hopefully to keep this to below £1500. I have recently purchased a new MacBook Pro M1 - which has further added to my problems - as I'm having major compatibility issues with my Lacie drives - no Lacie software raid support at the moment, plus issues with thunderbolt 2 to 3 adaptors etc...
I also want to be able to set up a system where by the family photo's and videos can be held on a drive accessible (wifi) by my wife and daughter who run different platforms. Hence I'm looking a NAS solutions with Cloud back-up for Family Content and Important work images.
I'm a photographer by trade and run a busy "in-house" studio for a large publishing company. All our images are backed up by Synology boxes and other enterprise systems including cloud. Data transfer is done over a Gigabit connection which is quite slow but it's for back-up so acceptable.
I'm now looking for a robust system at home that has expandability and hopefully a degree of future proofing. I can totally see how a NAS box would work at home - but my issue is ultimately speed. In an ideal world I'd just chuck all my data onto a large NAS box and slowly sort through and catalogue everything over a period of time either from my home office or over wifi. Do I keep a DAS attached RAID drive like the Lacie and then just back-up to a NAS box or look for an all in one solution.
I probably have about 4-5tb worth of Data that needs sorting and then a whole load of jobs from work that I need to edit down and store long term. I Have been looking a something like the QNAP 453d and BTE that allow direct access as well as ethernet connection, but my gut tells me that I'd fit into the Synology space better.
Suggestions - thoughts appreciated.
Philip
This is how I have mapped out my potential solution - happen for any advice.