OLED status screens, voice 'Thunderbolt device is connected', faster processors are available, thunderbolt and 10 GB ethernet without having to purchase an expansion card. Synology is probably easier to use, but personally I prefer QNAP. If you have 1 Gbps only then when you are finished for the day you can just drag and drop the files onto the disk.Īlso of note: It was dead easy to set up another user and volume on the NAS to have a Time Machine backup for my non image files.īest price I've seen on a Seagate Ironwolf Pro 16 TB is ~$440, so that would require $1760 in hard drives. On my Mac it just shows up as an external drive and I am happily editing 45 MP RAW files directly of it.

And I added two of the apps for the UI's store to run virus scans and AWS Glacier backups with the UI making it really easy to schedule these for through the night. I have it set up on the default raid recommendation where I can just swap in and out drives on a whim.

I believe they are probably the easiest to use on the market just now and there are abundant tutorials and guides.įor mine I have a 8 bay rack mount version with 8x10TB Seagate IronWolf Pro HDD's and 2 m.2 drives in the optional 10 Gbps NIC. Once setup you just keep shoving more drives into it and it just works as a giant external hard drive (at least how mine is setup).

They have a really 'Windows' like UI on the NAS IP address and a startup wizard.

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