02-15-2024, 11:30 AM
I've been following your YT channel for a few years and always enjoy the insightful and useful reviews and information you provide. So I thought you'd be the perfect person to answer my question.
I have a huge archive of RAW photos, around 40-50TB, it grows year-on-year. I store them on a Synology 8-Bay NAS but I think this might be overkill as I only access images shot in the last year or so on any regular basis. My archive of images & videos pre-2022 remain untouched. It seems a waste of resources to run 8 drives 24/7 to have these files accessible when I might only need to access them once or twice a year.
I have considered getting a smaller, SSD based, NAS to host my more recently shot images from the last year or two and have the rest archived off-line. What would you suggest would be the best way to go with this? I was thinking a Synology extension unit for the old archive which can be switched on and off when needed. But what would you pair this up with?
I have a huge archive of RAW photos, around 40-50TB, it grows year-on-year. I store them on a Synology 8-Bay NAS but I think this might be overkill as I only access images shot in the last year or so on any regular basis. My archive of images & videos pre-2022 remain untouched. It seems a waste of resources to run 8 drives 24/7 to have these files accessible when I might only need to access them once or twice a year.
I have considered getting a smaller, SSD based, NAS to host my more recently shot images from the last year or two and have the rest archived off-line. What would you suggest would be the best way to go with this? I was thinking a Synology extension unit for the old archive which can be switched on and off when needed. But what would you pair this up with?