External hard drives
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- mg33
Curious what some of you use as an approach to increasing storage needs. Slowly running low on storage based on the following:
256GB SSD in MBP
1TB WD Firewire 800 external drive
2TB Seagate USB drive for Time MachineIn the short term, I don't have much coming that's going to really max out what's left. Slowly going through tons of photos in Lightroom to delete RAW photos I don't need. Slowly removing unneeded videos as well. Rarely add new music to iTunes. Don't download movies that often; usually just snowboard videos.
I'm contemplating a few options:
1) New 1TB SSD upgrade for laptop, effectively giving me 740GB more space, and staying under 2TB backup drive size. Maybe use 256 SSD in an enclosure, but can't back it up.
Cost: About $3752) New 2TB Firewire 800 external drive + New 4TB Seagate drive for Time Machine. Continue using 1TB drive, retire current 2TB backup drive.
Cost: $299 + $139: $4403) Synology Diskstation NAS + 2 2TB drives + New 4TB Seagate drive for Time Machine. Likely will not hit 3+TB of files for a couple years, so can continue using 1TB Firewire drive
Cost: $199 + $200 (drives) + $139: $540I'm intrigued with the idea of a NAS, especially the Synology Diskstation because it offers cloud capabilities, and a bunch of other great features.
I'll add that using an online backup service, though appealing, is out of the question even though Comcast doesn't apply their 250GB monthly data transfer. They will enforce something though if you're far exceeding that, which I would easily with an initial 1TB backup.
So, curious how some of you are tackling similar problems and what your thoughts are. This stuff keeps me up at night. :D
- formed0
I've got a Synology DS412 and also use online backup and Comcast. I've got several terabytes backed up, there's never been any problem with Comcast.
- mg330
Also, anyone using a Synology NAS who also uses Lightroom?
I'm slowly learning there are some problems with applications like Logic and Lightroom, which I use most of the time.
- deathboy0
Might consider a new computer. Firewire is a bottleneck for todays HDDs. Best option for speed u laid out is the 1TB SSD scenario. Is your SSD using sataII? If so the money spent on a 1TB SSD is probably not worth it. NAS is pointless really. If you want a wireless cloud thing WD make 2TB wireless for like $140. Could u just take out the DVD drive and add a regular 1TB drive? Might be cheapest scenario.
- It's in a 2011 MBP. Outstanding speed with a Crucial 256MB 500+ Read/Write speeds.mg33
- cool sounds like sataIII if hitting that speed. a 1tb will get same speed so price point works.if u have usb 3.0 any regular HDD will cut it.deathboy
- of course if u want to have fun look at the speeds of a intel 750 400 gb drive.... might make u want to build a pcdeathboy
- akiersky0
I always a fan of not over buying on extra disk space. by the time you are able to fill it, something faster, cheaper, or with a new port will be out.
That said, the synology is great for the cloud storage and being able to raid the disks to get great speed. I'd personally go with a synology disk station with 4 disk capacity, get 3 fast-as-you-can-afford 1TB drives (ideally SSD) and RAID 5 em. then you get 2TB total, super fast speed, and redundancy, plus the cloud capabilities of the synology which are pretty awesome. You can add more/bigger disks as you need them too.
The only downside is the price, the diskstation itself is running just under $300 on B&H right now, plus another $120 or so each for decent drives.
- err0
I use this $22:
and I buy these for about $50 each:
