How do you permanantly store a LOT of data?
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Friend of mine is a semi-pro (ust about to go full time) photographer and is struggling with storage.
He currently has 2 external 1TB HDDs connected via USB, he is thinking of buying 2x 4TB external HDDS. Problem is that there is no data backup, no relibility, and its costing him a lot o money- every couple of yeras he's shelling out £300-£400 on extrenal hard drives.
So is there a cheaper and better option?
Obviously a NAS device would be first choice- but it would need to be SATA with RAID 5 (as a minimum)- but alot of the NAS devices seem to have a limit of 4 bays that only take 1TB each. Ideally i woud like to recommend something that he could scale up to say 16TB (or more) in the coming years.
It should be a box he can spend £500-600 on now, where the discs are hot swappable, and has some sort of RAID backup, but most importantly where he can upgrade storage in the future.
ideas?
He currently has 2 external 1TB HDDs connected via USB, he is thinking of buying 2x 4TB external HDDS. Problem is that there is no data backup, no relibility, and its costing him a lot o money- every couple of yeras he's shelling out £300-£400 on extrenal hard drives.
So is there a cheaper and better option?
Obviously a NAS device would be first choice- but it would need to be SATA with RAID 5 (as a minimum)- but alot of the NAS devices seem to have a limit of 4 bays that only take 1TB each. Ideally i woud like to recommend something that he could scale up to say 16TB (or more) in the coming years.
It should be a box he can spend £500-600 on now, where the discs are hot swappable, and has some sort of RAID backup, but most importantly where he can upgrade storage in the future.
ideas?
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