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

[John McMaster]

I use a 5 disk RAID 5 attatched by eSATA, that is then backed up to several NASes...

john

On 26/10/2022, 17:23, "LUG on behalf of Frank Filippone via LUG" <lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

    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/ 
    >>>>