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Patreon Podcast: The Storage Conundrum (Patreon)

Published:
2023-03-16 14:49:00
Imported:
2024-01

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It's pretty obvious that the average person doesn't need to store as much data on their devices any more, due to the rise in streaming services and cloud storage. Yet there's a small -- and growing -- segment of people, including myself, where local storage is very important. Is the hard drive industry neglecting a potentially lucrative market?

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Asaf Sagi

I felt your pain throughout the episode. I'm not a prolific content creator (couple of videos a year), but I take a LOT of high-quality photos. Just bought a Sony a7R V, which produces 60MP images. Anyway, I've been at the storage game for more than two decades now, as a photographer and collector of music, movies and TV shows. I also feel like we're stuck at 12TB as the sweet spot, but it's not too bad I guess. I mean, as you said - you can just buy another NAS. They're pretty cheap when bought used. Same goes for enterprise drives around 10TB. Sure, they must have some wear but I think if you buy a few for redundancy, it's still a better bang for your buck. As for archiving your footage - I think having a bunch of bare HDDs sitting in plastic cases, waiting to be pulled from the closet when needed isn't a bad thing. It's not high-availability demand, is it? I use a program called Voidtools Everything. If you don't know it, it's a glorified search tool for your local storage. But it can cache indexed information about removable drives if you choose to. So you can search all your hard drives without them having to be plugged in, and then you can know exactly which one to pull. I've been rambling, and I can keep going for hours. But I best stop now, and hit me up if you wanna talk about it some more :)

Mac84

I fully agree! Keeping loads of data is becoming increasingly a chore. While I do take advantage of iCloud for my phone photos, I even reached a point where I was at 4TB of iCloud storage and hard to make a seperate photos library to archive everything to free up space. Hard drive prices are still a bit higher than I’d like, and it makes you stop and think before you think about upgrade options. Recently I had a 4-bay Synology NAS I got in 2010 and it was running fine up until last year when it got cranky. It had four 4TB drives in there (giving me about 7.2 TB of usable space). But it’s hardware and software limits meant that I need to think about getting a new NAS to support larger disks and a newer OS, etc. Things like FreeNAS/TrueNAS are less expensive, if you have an old desktop sitting around, but you may not get the ease of use like with Synology. Still, buying four 18TB enterprise drives (about 30TB of usable space) would set me back over $1,000 easily. I not only have my content creator clips to worry about (and like you, I shoot a lot of footage that never sees it in the final video) but I’m an archivist for my family’s history. So I have loads of photos, digitized VHS and 8mm films to worry about. It all eats up a ton of data, and quite frankly it’s a pain in the butt to keep track of. Hopefully you figure out a good NAS storage solution. I’m currently looking at TrueNAS, I like that it’ll give me the flexibility to add a 10GBe option and more SATA ports down the road.

thisdoesnotcompute
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I really do like the simplicity of Synology's options, so I'm leaning towards buying a DS1821+. That way I can move my existing four drives over and keep using them, then add more 12TB drives to expand the capacity.