FAO Synology NASists / FAO Beany
Posted: Thu May 19, 2022 11:31 pm
I'm starting to look at updating my home PC and also looking at upgrading the NAS boxes I have. Wanting the PC itself to run quiet as a silent thing so among all the cooling options I'm also looking at running only SSD inside it, which could be quite an expense if I mirror what I currently run (OS drive, scratch/catalogue drive, Documents drive, data drive and then an 8TB archive drive).
The alternative is to run not much in the way of drives internally and try and run storage for that archive particularly via a pimped up NAS box. My current Synology NAS are pretty vanilla 4 bay efforts, one of which is now old enough I can't run the latest DSM software on it. I've noticed you can pimp up the NAS with faster network cards, more RAM and an SSD which I think is for caching most recent files, and in theory that might help with some of my needs. I don't know anyone who's done this in practice though - what are the real world benefits of the various pimping options?
If it helps the current logic for the drives in the PC are as below:
OS - obvious
Scratch/Catalogue - Lightroom, Photoshop and Premiere seem to run better with their respective scratch and catalogues kept separately from the data being worked on.
Documents - As expected really, this is < 1TB and contains all the day-to-day stuff I use an access. Been debating mirroring this up to a cloud account.
Data - Basically the current year's images, video and audio - traditionally always best worked on with data local on the machine due to how the apps work but if you believe the hype, some big video editing houses work onto networked files instead. Haven't seen much mention of anyone doing that with image files though.
Archive - Everything, ever. Also lives in a single home so that single catalogues and search can run over it. Currently at 7.5TB and will obviously rise over time.
Any thoughts and experience here welcome. TIA.
The alternative is to run not much in the way of drives internally and try and run storage for that archive particularly via a pimped up NAS box. My current Synology NAS are pretty vanilla 4 bay efforts, one of which is now old enough I can't run the latest DSM software on it. I've noticed you can pimp up the NAS with faster network cards, more RAM and an SSD which I think is for caching most recent files, and in theory that might help with some of my needs. I don't know anyone who's done this in practice though - what are the real world benefits of the various pimping options?
If it helps the current logic for the drives in the PC are as below:
OS - obvious
Scratch/Catalogue - Lightroom, Photoshop and Premiere seem to run better with their respective scratch and catalogues kept separately from the data being worked on.
Documents - As expected really, this is < 1TB and contains all the day-to-day stuff I use an access. Been debating mirroring this up to a cloud account.
Data - Basically the current year's images, video and audio - traditionally always best worked on with data local on the machine due to how the apps work but if you believe the hype, some big video editing houses work onto networked files instead. Haven't seen much mention of anyone doing that with image files though.
Archive - Everything, ever. Also lives in a single home so that single catalogues and search can run over it. Currently at 7.5TB and will obviously rise over time.
Any thoughts and experience here welcome. TIA.