I settled on it because of a few factors: Price, reviews, and - uh - price. I ended up purchasing a Synology DS215j NAS. I didn't want to have to fool around with too many settings and I wanted backup of my shoot files to be automatic. As such, I wanted a drive that would simply work. Now, I've built many computer systems in my day, but when it comes to networking I'm a rank amateur. I decided to do some research into NAS drives. When I moved my work area to the basement, I didn't want to bring the same bad habits with me. It had super fast read and write and I had no complaints. This is totally not a knock on the drive itself. If something were to happen to that drive I would have been royally screwed. All of my files were hanging out on a 6 TB LaCie Thunderbolt drive in RAID 0. Here are some interesting things I've discovered along the way.įirst and foremost, I have to acknowledge: I've been pretty dumb about storage.
I took this opportunity to switch up my workflow from using a local external hard drive to a NAS (network-attached storage). Namely, my wife was tired of seeing my hard drive sitting on the kitchen island and I was handily kicked down to the basement. In my journey to separate my family life from my work life, as detailed in my last post, a change in my work environment has been key.