[Leica] Best NAS for Photography to Buy in 2022 – NAS Nerdiness.......

[Peter Dzwig]

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/
>>>
>>
> 
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Dr. Peter Dzwig