Yesterday, 10:57 AM
Hi thanks in advance for all the advice and insights.
After years of considering it, the time has finally come for me to invest in a NAS system. Until recently I was fully convinced that my NAS would be a Synology, but with the recent controversy around the brand, I’m now unsure which direction to go.
I’m a professional photographer. My photo archive is currently over 20TB and grows at an average rate of about 3TB per year.
I’m fairly certain I want to invest in a 4- or 5-bay expandable NAS, using 12TB to 16TB drives per bay, most likely in RAID 5. The main goal is to have a centralized photo archive with redundancy, so that a single drive failure doesn’t mean data loss. I would also like to work directly from the NAS, both for storage and editing. My workflow is entirely based on Adobe software (Lightroom and Photoshop for photos) and DaVinci Resolve for video.
After years of considering it, the time has finally come for me to invest in a NAS system. Until recently I was fully convinced that my NAS would be a Synology, but with the recent controversy around the brand, I’m now unsure which direction to go.
I’m a professional photographer. My photo archive is currently over 20TB and grows at an average rate of about 3TB per year.
I’m fairly certain I want to invest in a 4- or 5-bay expandable NAS, using 12TB to 16TB drives per bay, most likely in RAID 5. The main goal is to have a centralized photo archive with redundancy, so that a single drive failure doesn’t mean data loss. I would also like to work directly from the NAS, both for storage and editing. My workflow is entirely based on Adobe software (Lightroom and Photoshop for photos) and DaVinci Resolve for video.