05-16-2018, 02:21 AM
I should already have all the drives I need. I think it is about 6TB of data. I currently backup to several drives directly - one for Time Machine, and then another Carbon Copy Cloner clones of all my main mounted drives.
The reason for a move like this is really two-fold. One, because the noise of drives is loud enough that it interferes with some of my projects (audio recording/mixing). Tucking away the spinny drives in a NAS in the closet right next door will address this. Because the closet is also my network closet, it has a direct line to my network, which is gigabit.
The second reason is about giving the other computers in our house an always-on way to access video content (ripped DVDs, primarily), family photos, and network based Time Machine backups.
I used some NAS devices maybe 8-10 years ago, and yes, they were quite slow. But I think they've advanced enough that network speed/device speed is no longer much of an issue for this sort of thing. I installed a 2 bay Synology device for a client last year, and it handles a bunch of stuff quite well. I'm thinking it's probably worth the $$ in this case to address all these issues in one swoop. I'd love to do something like a Raspberry PI with an external drive as a NAS, but I don't want to have to mess with the command line to get it up and running. Sounds like a pain for someone who isn't command-line/linux savvy.
The reason for a move like this is really two-fold. One, because the noise of drives is loud enough that it interferes with some of my projects (audio recording/mixing). Tucking away the spinny drives in a NAS in the closet right next door will address this. Because the closet is also my network closet, it has a direct line to my network, which is gigabit.
The second reason is about giving the other computers in our house an always-on way to access video content (ripped DVDs, primarily), family photos, and network based Time Machine backups.
I used some NAS devices maybe 8-10 years ago, and yes, they were quite slow. But I think they've advanced enough that network speed/device speed is no longer much of an issue for this sort of thing. I installed a 2 bay Synology device for a client last year, and it handles a bunch of stuff quite well. I'm thinking it's probably worth the $$ in this case to address all these issues in one swoop. I'd love to do something like a Raspberry PI with an external drive as a NAS, but I don't want to have to mess with the command line to get it up and running. Sounds like a pain for someone who isn't command-line/linux savvy.