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

[Frank Filippone]

My personal system has all the images on a group of SSD's.  They are the 
real "masters".  The NAS (HDD base) holds backups, and thus can be slower.

The FASTEST solution is a bit nerdy and quite expensive and you need the 
right motherboard to achieve.  All at a $$$ cost.  It would use SSDs....

You will spend significantly more time editing rather than retrieving,so 
I think that a compromise is in order ....

Cost per TB is $10-15 for HDD, $100 for SSD.

Frank Filippone
BMWRed735i at gmail.com

On 10/26/2022 8:54 AM, Peter Dzwig wrote:
> 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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