Since the storage is on the network its a trivial matter to have data sync from imaging PC to NAS to the secondary NVME SSD on my editing PC in real time.
I have 2 imaging PC (for 2 mounts) and my office desktop PC where I do my editing. For me the NAS route is best because the storage space is easily accessible from all machines in my house. I use a 6 bay Synology NAS with 8TD drives so it gives me around 30TB of storage space with protection against a single drive failure. Would be curious to hear brand name recommendations for Windows based users. This probably doesn't help if you are on a Windows system as far as particular brands go, but I think the concept of RAID allows me a little more comfort, although RAID by itself is not an adequate backup strategy.Īnother dilemma is what to actually save - I think that subject has come up in the forum before. I well remember losing a nAperture library that was not well-backed up and the amount of time and effort to rebuilt that library. Totally agree with TurtleCat that this hobby is just for fun, so while data loss is not catastrophic, it can be a PITA. I have two old legacy Pegasus units and over the years, I have replaced virtually all of the drives at one point or another, but thankfully without any data loss. Ask me how I know! Though I've not had a drive failure with the OWC units, it will eventually happen. The nice thing with the RAID arrays is up to 2 discs can fail (more specifically, 1 per array in a RAID 10 config) and not lose data, and you can hot swap drives. Though I do not have automated cloud backup, agree that either Backblaze or Crashplan would be the way to go.
Final archived data manually backed up and stored off site to another computer (approximately quarterly) and in portable hard drive stored in a fireproof safe (annually) as well as to the cloud (DropBox and GoogleDrive, in an iterative fashion). I do the PI processing itself on a iMac Pro with internal SSD hard drive, though all raw data and all archived data are stored on daisy-chained RAID-10 arrays from OtherWord Computing and all are connected to a dedicated UPS with automatic voltage regulation.
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