Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The advantage is with Solid state memory these days. Spinning rust, as a friend of mine used to call it, has slower access times. However if you go that route then, as a sometime disk buyer in quantity, my personal recommendation would be Seagate as the most reliable (IMHO). If you go the spinning rust route then go with a RAID implementation (e.g. RAID 10) which will enable you to recover your data if one disk goes down. The same actually goes for SSDs too. Peter On 25/10/2022 19:50, Frank Filippone via LUG wrote: > HDD are now selling for under $12 per TB.? Thanksgiving is the time of > year when HDD go on real sales..... > > If you are going to get a NAS, get the biggest NAS marketed HDD you can > afford.? 16TB is the current sweet spot.? ($$$ per TB) > > The Seagate EXOS series are currently the most modern and cheapest. > > The WD RED and Seagate Ironwolf series include post mortem data > retrieval, for which you pay dearly..... at time of purchase. > > Perter is right, it takes a while to get them working the way you want, > especially since the while field of IT and especially NAS systems is a > bit of a nerdy trip. > > But it is pretty easy to get them working.... about as hard as a DIY USB > configuration > > But I have found that Synology has lots of you tube and other videos and > articles to help us mere mortals..... > > > or. if you are fearful of getting stuck in a IT nightmare, get a big > external USB Drive (12- 16TB is available) and live with it.... it will > work. > > > Frank Filippone > BMWRed735i at gmail.com > > On 10/25/2022 11:26 AM, Peter Dzwig wrote: >> That's fascinating. I would agree about Synology as a bought-in >> option. There are alternatives though such as using memory sticks with >> a Raspberry Pi. That will get you a NAS, with RAID if you want it, for >> less than $150. YOu can easily get multi-TB storage at that price point. >> >> All the options take a bit of work to get working as *you* want them >> but are what you need for storage of large volumes of images/ >> >> Peter >> >> On 22/10/2022 23:49, Frank Filippone via LUG wrote: >>> Here is a reasonably easy to understand ways to pick a NAS... >>> something to hold all your images without a lot of trouble..... >>> >>> I remind anyone that there are other specifics if you are using >>> Lightroom ..... you can NOT put your catalog on a non-"internal" >>> storage location.... >>> >>> The recommendations are for both MAC and PC o/s.. as well as others.... >>> >>> https://nascompares.com/2022/01/17/best-nas-for-photography-to-buy-in-2022/ >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Dr. Peter Dzwig