Hi all,
With all the coming work with larger files (stills and video), I'm curious what everyone is using for their external work drives.
I currently have an older thunderbolt to SATA drive with a 3TB disk in it..t.hat is thunderbolt daisy chained to a tb->SATA drive with a Sandisk SSD.
I use the SSD for my cache for my applications, I use the 3TB drive for my work drive (images and videos unloaded to and worked on here)....I have a 3 disk NAS that is 2x 3TB drives mirrored, that I "back up" my work drive to....
I've had this for a few years now. And with working on much larger stills and video now and coming more in the near future, I'm thinking about what to do to upgrade this.
I need MUCH more space.
I have been trying to clean out my current working drive, but so far, still not enough.
SO, I was thinking perhaps a nice NAS for my working drive(s)? I like synology, and like that you can expand with larger drives as you afford them and it will incorporate that into the mix fairly seamlessly. I was thinking a 4 or more bay one....
Ideally I would like to get a NAS with all SSD's in it...but that's still a bit pricey...and concerned about the lifetime of read/write/deletes on the SSD....and which SSDs are best for a NAS set up. For spinning disks, I"ve always looked to the reports from BackBlaze Drive Report. and other sources.....to see what are the best rated drives.
Anyway...curious what set up ya'll have, and what you may be planning for upgrades.
I believe the best performance comes from having your apps on your computers main drive...and having your content and cache off on separate drives (whether external or internal) from the one your OS and apps are stored on.
Do many/any of ya'll have your images/videos on the same drive as your OS and applications?
Thanks in advance,
cayenne
With all the coming work with larger files (stills and video), I'm curious what everyone is using for their external work drives.
I currently have an older thunderbolt to SATA drive with a 3TB disk in it..t.hat is thunderbolt daisy chained to a tb->SATA drive with a Sandisk SSD.
I use the SSD for my cache for my applications, I use the 3TB drive for my work drive (images and videos unloaded to and worked on here)....I have a 3 disk NAS that is 2x 3TB drives mirrored, that I "back up" my work drive to....
I've had this for a few years now. And with working on much larger stills and video now and coming more in the near future, I'm thinking about what to do to upgrade this.
I need MUCH more space.
I have been trying to clean out my current working drive, but so far, still not enough.
SO, I was thinking perhaps a nice NAS for my working drive(s)? I like synology, and like that you can expand with larger drives as you afford them and it will incorporate that into the mix fairly seamlessly. I was thinking a 4 or more bay one....
Ideally I would like to get a NAS with all SSD's in it...but that's still a bit pricey...and concerned about the lifetime of read/write/deletes on the SSD....and which SSDs are best for a NAS set up. For spinning disks, I"ve always looked to the reports from BackBlaze Drive Report. and other sources.....to see what are the best rated drives.
Anyway...curious what set up ya'll have, and what you may be planning for upgrades.
I believe the best performance comes from having your apps on your computers main drive...and having your content and cache off on separate drives (whether external or internal) from the one your OS and apps are stored on.
Do many/any of ya'll have your images/videos on the same drive as your OS and applications?
Thanks in advance,
cayenne