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Backup Advice - Enquiries - 06-17-2025
As a motion GFX artist, I have a 2014 Lacie 5Big as my main RAID storage. It's 20TB total, with 16TB RAID5 (12TB total after RAID) across 4 drives, and the 5th drive being a hot swappable Time Machine backup and RAID backup slot. The 16TB RAID I backup critical data to an 8TB drive, less critical work I backup to a 4TB drive, and I have another 8TB Time Machine backup of my workstation (M1 Max MacBook Pro). I also have a DS118 which I use for syncing google drive for client delivery and Plex.
As it's 11 years old, I was thinking it's time to update my main storage, and use the old Lacie as a RAID backup. I thought a NAS as I now run a mobile workstation rather than a desktop workstation like I did from 2013 to 2022.
As I've enjoyed the DS118, I always imagined I'd get a 5 or 6 bay Synology NAS once they were updated, but the latest releases have taken so long, and been poorly received, there may be much better options now.
Any advice appreciated.