09-07-2021, 11:29 PM
No-one responded? I am working on the same problem, wanting to be more serious about my photography. I have bought an HP N54L Microserver to build my own NAS. It has four drive bays that I have populated with 3TB drives, gives just under 8TB of space in Raidz1 / RAID5. I think you would find the speed of RAID better for moving files around. I have asked for help on picking the best operating system...TrueNAS with Plex for the photo management, but I do like the look of Synology Photos, it has some AI capability. I would recommend that you look at a four bay NAS. Have a search for Morten Hilmer's recent vlog where he described his history of filling disks and growing into a need for NAS - he covers your plan for tucking away old drives.