So I have probably 12TB of work photos and videos and a few TB of other data that needs to be backed up.
I used to have everything on LaCie 2Big drives but got lazy and I’ve lost a lot of data due to drive failures. Also FW800 isn’t very fast anymore.
I have cloud storage for all of my mobile devices, but want something local to back up my computers and archives and will also be quick to retrieve.
I was thinking my best bet is a Synology setup, with the added benefit of being able to run my Homebridge on it too and free up the RaspberryPi it’s running on for other things (chip shortages has made them go from like $100 to $300).
I also want something relatively futureproof.
So I was thinking of this: https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS1621xs+
It’s around $1600 empty. I know there’s a cheaper version for around $900 less, but it only has 1gb Ethernet vs 10gb on this one.
Right now my house has an Eero 6 Pro Wifi6 network, with eight access points hardwired via Cat6. I get around 900mbs down anywhere in the house or yard. While the Eero system maxes out a a gigabit, I’m sure I’ll upgrade in the future or appreciate the benefit of having to be able to connect directly if I ever get a computer with more than a gigabit connection.
I guess my question is, does anyone have any other recommendations for this price range? Am I stupid to pay almost twice as much for the better hardware and connections vs the regular DS1621?
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can't you just get one of their cheaper 4 bays and put in a couple of 10+ tb drives
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I also have twenty four security cameras that would be recording to it so I don’t have to wait a minute for recordings to load from the cloud to see what funny things the raccoons are doing in my garage.
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Good question. My thought was that for the price of four big drives I could get six smaller drives and have a bit more redundancy and quicker read/write performance.
I intend to have it in a RAID 5 or 6 setup, which you can do with 3 or 4 drives, but I feel like performance would be better with six? I’m going to be sorting through a lot of ProRes video and am impatient.
Big capacity single drives scare me after so many drive failures back in the early 2000s.
I also plan on using this for at least five to ten years lol.
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i mean the price per GB for those bigger drives is better and there's no real reason to think they're unreliable. You can get a syn920+ and 2x WD red pro 16TB for a couple hundred less than the empty version of the thing you linked
edit: i guess that thing is 1gbit if that's gonna bother you
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You’re a voice of reason and I will look at that before hitting that check-out button.
When I was twelve or so I broke our cheap weed-whacker using one of those saw-blade attachments. I figured I didn’t have time to deal with puny, underpowered weed-clearing equipment and had my dad drive me to Sears to pick up a new one. I went straight to the biggest, 60cc, steel-shaft unit on display. It could run a tiller and had a full, two-shoulder harness with waist and chest straps, along with a big orange safety sign that said “Stand Back 50 Feet”.
I could barely control it. The vibrations made my whole body numb and with every sweep the momentum was so great it took all of my strength to get it going in the other direction.
I definitely haven’t learned anything from that experience.
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big shiny thing cool, but yeah just chill, it's not like you actually have that much data or need for insane specs. if you wanna spend money get more storage space and pop in even more huge drives so you can download all the goon material you want
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So I went with the cheaper version of the 1621+ for $900 because I found out you can just slap a 10 or 25 gigabit card in it later on. Also I found out the specs they state for the two different processors aren’t as different as they say. So I was able to get one that works for what I need now and in the future and load it up with 20gb of Ram for less than the one I was going to get cost me.
Also ordered 2 of each of WD, Seagate, and Toshiba 8tb drives to fill it with because im a paranoid crazy person.
Thanks for the input. Within the next week my 24tb tumblr porn archive will be secure.
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nice dude. I kind of want to get some more serious storage space, i've been living off of a couple TB forever which sucks
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