Hi All!
As the title says, I am on the search now for a file storage system. Currently I have all of my photos and associated files backing up to cloud storage which works well. But I do worry if I reach a day where a provider decides to stop cloud storage (highly unlikely) or I decide to move to another method and I am downloading tb worth of data and moving it.
Currently thinking of switching to a (noob friendly) NAS where my onedrive will backup on to it once a month or so.
I am also really clueless on servers, this has been a thought over the weekend while storing more images.
Am I crazy or does this sound like a good option?
Belt and braces approach is best.
I use a Terramaster F5-422 which is a 5 bay NAS. One bay has an SSD to act as a cache and improve access speeds and the other 4 have 8TB drives set up as a TRAID array. TRAID is like a raid 5 but allows drives of different capacities to be used. I connect this to my PC and Labtop via a 10GB network so I can edit straight off it at a decent speed. I export different directories to my PC for different usage (Photos, Video, Movies, etc) so that each has it’s own drive associated with it on my PC and Laptop.
I can back the whole NAS or (more useful) specific directories to the cloud.
I also have a 10tb external HD connected to my main PC just in case.