RAID Storage for Photographers

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Understanding RAID storage for photographers. This is Part 2 of a multi-part series on data storage, NAS, RAID drives, file organization, etc. with an emphasis on photographer and filmmaker workflow. Very special thank you to Synology for their assistance and support. For more information about Synology, visit their website: www.synology.com/
📔 Table of Contents
0:00 Opening
0:21 Welcome
0:45 Disclaimer
1:17 What is RAID?
1:29 Most Important Part of RAID
1:44 Three Reasons to Use RAID
2:28 About RAID Configurations
2:49 RAID BASIC
3:16 JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks)
3:43 RAID 0
5:02 RAID 1
6:32 RAID 5
7:06 Understanding Parity Data
8:48 RAID 6
9:22 RAID 10
10:16 Setting Up RAID
11:23 About Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR)
12:20 Advantages to Using (SHR)
12:49 Disadvantages to Using (SHR)
13:47 My Official RAID Recommendation
15:03 Conclusion
15:34 Closing
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@pal2tech 2 жыл бұрын

NOTE: I'm not a professional data storage expert. There are many out there and if you have data questions, concerns, issues, etc., you'll definitely want to consult with one. I'm trying to make a difficult and boring concept for many people (RAID) somewhat approachable and interesting -- even at the expense of being overly general about some of the RAID drive concepts, data parity, and other aspects. This is an entire industry -- and you will want to pursue additional tutorials and info on KZfaq and elsewhere before you make any serious decision regarding your data or your purchase.

@jon-sully 2 жыл бұрын

Hey hey hey, as a software engineer and networking guy, RAID drives are NOT a boring subject! The wonderful world of packets, caching, and storage are fun 🤓 but yeah, Synology #1

@maxbashyrov5785 2 жыл бұрын

RAID in 2021? seriously, is it still a thing?

@mackman3294 Ай бұрын

Best explanation ever on RAID. Thank you!

@niftyfifty8431 2 жыл бұрын

I CAN NOT BELIEVE HOW GOOD IS THIS RAID MASTER CLASS. CAN NOT BELIEVE IT. Amazing.

@propoxyphene 2 жыл бұрын

Enjoying this content, thanks! When is the next video on RAID drives coming out??

@medic9017 3 ай бұрын

So helpful, you’re like the Scotty Kilmer of technology!!!

@akay64x2 2 жыл бұрын

This channel should have million+ subs...

@cannondale1100 2 жыл бұрын

A BIG Thank You for this series. It’s been a huge help in demystifying this somewhat complicated subject for me. I’m anxiously waiting for your next video on set-up. Thanks again!

@CarlinDoeksen 2 жыл бұрын

Always appreciate your videos and your entertaining teaching, Chris. This series on storage is timely for me and your insights are so valuable.

@r.derrickthomas2909 2 жыл бұрын

This is exactly the easy-in tutorial I've been waiting for!!! I purchased a NAS system but was overwhelmed and afraid of setting it up incorrectly without the ability to change the configuration so it's just been sitting in a box. I have scores of external hard drives that are all full. I need a more centralized data storage system. I now feel much more comfortable approaching the set-up and getting my files organized. The real challenge is whittling down old files to save only what's absolutely necessary - high megapixel photos and 4K vids means I'll have an ever-growing need for terabytes of storage space and a system that can/will be expanded exponentially as long as I continue creating. I look forward to watching the next video in this series!

@firstMillo 2 жыл бұрын

Chris, your ability to explain and teach the complex stuff in a very fun, entertaining and understandable way is outstanding! You really opened my eyes on NAS and RAID and now I got the point about it. Just need to put it on my wish list for Christmas :-) Thanks a lot!

@charlescarlson1290 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you much for this one! Another plug I would put in for Synology is their support staff, which generally I've found really helpful. Not that I've had many problems with my Synology unit, but when I have their support staff has been excellent. I'm looking forward to watching the rest of these.

2 жыл бұрын

Best photography tech channel on youtube, in my opinion. Great explanations on all kind of tech things related to photography. Thanks for all the work you put in to making the videos. 🙏

@juleshorse9056 2 жыл бұрын

At last, a clear, helpful description. Helpful? Yes - without doubt. Looking forward to the next in the series. Many thanks.

@paulasimson4939 2 жыл бұрын

Chris, I just watched your members only video. PLEASE don't worry about taking a break! We'll all be here for you no matter what. Take care of yourself, and your family. We'll stick around and when you're ready, we'll be waiting.

@donaldpirie5485 2 жыл бұрын

Far from boring! Fascinating and extremely helpful.

@FlorianCortese 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Chris. I FINALLY have an understanding of what RAID is all about!

@j3157 Жыл бұрын

Hello, I'm just really getting into sports photography, and have found that my storage plan was not well thought out. I am the guy who finds that I have about a dozen 1tb drives sitting around my office, and I'm shooting more photos all the time since I upgraded my camera. I'm glad I found your channel and now a clear downloading and saving plan for my images seems to be coming into view. Thanks for making videos for people like me that have maxed out their computer hard drives and know they need a better plan. This really helps.

@patrickblot9928 2 жыл бұрын

Yesss, I waited for this video since many days!! Thank you for all your advices and recommendations 👊🏻

@shanebakerstudios 2 жыл бұрын

One of the best overviews of RAID storage. Great job.

@street_biologist6727 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Chris for focusing on the topic of storage. It is probably as important as taking the picture.

@pakorn7000 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much. You simplify it for easy understading of RAID. Love this.

@gregm8392 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant again. Can't wait for part 3.

@ShreddingBliss 2 жыл бұрын

My mind is blown 🤯 (and in a very good way). You just saved me countless evenings of googling 🙏🏻

@alexforsyth5895 8 ай бұрын

Chris, I don’t thinkI have seen another video as detailed and concise as this one and certainly not boring. I haven’t made the dive into Synology yet but it looks like I will. I will refer to this video and everything else you post. Many thanks, keep them coming!

@Anton.Roznov 2 жыл бұрын

the best video about NAS systems I've seen so far

@1cookgs 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your excellent videos. The subject of RAID is very technical and you did a great job of breaking it down and making it easier to understand.

@FlorianFrickel 2 жыл бұрын

Probably one of the best raid videos I have seen on KZfaq. Thanks for the video Chris

@pal2tech 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks!

@amycantrell7680 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for a great video! You have taken a mind numbing subject for me and definitely made it interesting and easy to understand the basics of it.

@shotfrombothsides 9 ай бұрын

Just discovered your channel while setting up my new Synology DS1522+ and after a catastrophic DROBO failure where I've lost 12 years of photos. Why? Because like SHR with Synology DROBO used its own proprietary data storage system and unlike RAID I can't simply use any other NAS solution. I'll set my new one up with RAID 6 after watching your video which I have to say is briliant. Really helps the less than technical/novice users and for that I thank you. I'll now watch more of your videos and will share on social media to many other photographers I know. Probably the best channel I've found. Thank you again.

@utekopka7920 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this great video! This is exactly was I was looking for. Last summer I had a head crash and damaged service area on an external hard drive (and yes I sadly lost a lot of data.) I am desperately looking now for an alternative and safer storage system and NAS and RAID seem to be a great solution. Your videos are most helpful!

@tughukamurru7018 2 жыл бұрын

It's never confusing with whatever you bring up. Well explained💥 worth watching

@luisfaustino Жыл бұрын

Good video! Looking forward to the next one in this NAS series.

@germanshepherdmom5411 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for doing these videos. I have been wanting to adopt a system like this for a long time but didn’t fully understand how it works or where to start. I’m looking forward to your next video!

@JackieDElia 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this video, Chris. Thank you making it. Now I fully understand the raid options.

@Blood_Doc 2 жыл бұрын

Just awesome, Chris. This was the clearest explanation of this subject I have ever heard. Best, Steve B.

@pal2tech 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@Photoshop240117 2 жыл бұрын

I agree

@pnwbikepacking 2 жыл бұрын

You're a great teacher! Thank you!

@deepdivegooddive 7 ай бұрын

Congrats, very clear & complete

@TheWeddingGuest. Жыл бұрын

Very informative and to the point. Thank you for making this video! I will definitely be referencing it as I piece together my kit.

@kungvubeatmaking3401 2 жыл бұрын

This is so helpful. Thank you very much for the detailled information. I am really looking forward the next video since all my stuff is currently sitting on a quite new external HD and I am feeling uncomfortable with that. I want to set up a NAS but not before hearing your advice. Please dont let us wait :)

@LeslieBigos 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for these videos. I just bought a Syneology unit.

@merlebecker8417 2 жыл бұрын

Tks Chris - from going from knowing nothing to where to start at least. Tks Entertaining & informative.

@Goldmangun 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant, so helpful - thank you!

@philbreton9394 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent! Thanks a lot for your videos!

@alanadams2018 Жыл бұрын

Great video man! Helped me a lot! Raid 6!! Let’s go!!

@blutac318 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chris, this is really helpful. I now know exactly what to do with redoing my NAS systems. Buy a Synology to replace the Drobo, and RAID 6. 😃😜

@phillagettie 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome break down mate! Really appreciate the time and effort you have put in to this video :) Legend 🤟🤟 Love from 🇦🇺

@pal2tech 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!! 🙏🙏🙏

@colinturner6628 2 жыл бұрын

Another Master Class 👍👍👍👍

@monolithpoem 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant video. Thanks for the concise, entertaining information on what I have for a long time found extremely boring and impenetrable :)

@romeosierrakh 2 жыл бұрын

I love your explaination, really easy to understand 🙂

@arjandevries-imajukuaikido 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for lifting me up from 98% to 2%! Maybe you will do a video about backup as well in the future? Keep up the good work (and please keep the xt-3 specific video's come as well). Greetings from the Netherlands!

@KeithMasonPhotography 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Chris. I’m hanging out ‘til you finish this series before getting my NAS - hopefully in the new year. Until then I have separate drives and a cloud backup and use Flickr to store finished images. It’s worked ok for years but now I really need to make the move to a better system. Ta

@davidjones8213 Жыл бұрын

GREAT JOB!

@marchelomarko 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting, very actually for who doing photography.

@NikCan66 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video and honest advice 👌

@SeanGilliganphoto 2 жыл бұрын

I’m also anxiously awaiting your video on set up. It would be great to have you share your experience working with Capture One on NAS. Do you work with Raw files directly from the NAS in Capture One? Do you directly connect your computer via FireWire or 10gbe? Thank you for your entertaining and helpful videos!

@Atia1 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video !!

@wallaceshackleton1889 2 жыл бұрын

RAID Storage for Photographers - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love RAID.

@jcmc3445 2 жыл бұрын

Great video!! Cheers!

@pablovargas5758 2 жыл бұрын

thank you so much!

@MyRealtorSean 2 жыл бұрын

you did a great job with this video

@search4light Жыл бұрын

thank you so much

@ryanwelch8365 2 жыл бұрын

I’m so thankful for this video because I too have a drawer full of external drives cradling about 80k (~2tb) photos. Your video made plane the complex world of storage and has motivated me to upgrade to a Synology. However, I am left wondering what system would be best for an amateur photographer? Looking forward to your next video!

@martykincaid1700 2 жыл бұрын

If you are not a professional and you have a good broadband connection, you may want to leverage the cloud more. I use a local raid 1 but also mirror my pictures to OneDrive using rclone (to make them accessible) and take a backup using Arq sourced from MacOS. I use jpegmini to shrink the size of my jpegs and I do not store RAW files after processing. The cloud will take care of this complexity for you and the data redundancy simply cannot be beat locally. However, if this is your living or you have tens of terabytes of data, a local nas while complicated is the way to go. For years I have been looking for a way to go cloud only but haven't pulled the trigger. I need to get more comfortable with backing up data between cloud vendors. Thanks for this important video, I've had so many hard drives fail over the years and only have my wedding photos because I had a backup loaded to Ofoto!

@andyF1K 2 жыл бұрын

I use Synology's proprietary raid formatting because for me, this single feature sold me on making my raid choice. The reason is that a year ago 8-10 TB drives were the size of choice, today it's 14. In 2 years it will be 20 or even 24 TB. When I run out of space I can modernize an older small drive, others can't do this. Reason I'm glad I went Synology... I am technical but was interested in learning NASes. I read Synology was the Apple of NASes. Well... Let's just say I'm glad I went simple Apple because I had to learn much more than I imagined. Example... I decided to add a security camera... New drive was setup but didn't appear. Took me hours to figure out I had to create a folder on the drive for it to appear in other tools. Okay... But this is the easy to use "Apple" UI...yikes what QNAB must be like.

@pictalk8041 2 жыл бұрын

very helpful~ thanks

@xDAceName 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, you helped me alot!!! when you do part 3 ?

@stefanoguidone 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for making me aware of this subject! Looking forward to see the next episode and to know if you have also tips for backups :)

@pal2tech 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

@mikelannister960 Жыл бұрын

Thank you sooooo much 😭😭😭😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

@J.Byronphillipsjr Жыл бұрын

Good info!

@RegCoulter 2 жыл бұрын

Chris - you did a great job of explaining RAID for newbies. Thank you. What I am disappointed about is the rough manner in which you were handling those hard drives. That has reduced the life of those drives (in theory). I am glad to hear you explain that RAID is NOT a backup. So true. Synology has lots of options for backing up the system, either through an attached explanation unlit, a separate large USB hard drive, or backing up to a cloud service. Great job. Please handle those drives with a little more care though.

2 жыл бұрын

Hello. I totaly agree with you: mecanical hard drives are very fragile items. Please, be more gentel with them in fron of the camera: you do not want to spread the false idea that they can face rough handling...

@swoopix-hovernh 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Chris - Great video like always. (Watched it when it first came out.) ~ Curious as to what happened to updates on your NAS project? (Looks like you "went down the rabbit hole" on this one, there's a lot to it lol/col!)

@arjunap9863 2 жыл бұрын

4:32 That transition though. 😄👍

@knightc723 Жыл бұрын

Any idea when we can expect your next video on how to set up the unit and NAS drives? New to this method and just watched both videos which were very informative and helped make sense of it all.

@RandyPollock 2 жыл бұрын

For many many viewers a 6 bay Synology box with six 10TB Iron wolf drives is going to cost more than all their camera gear. Food for thought... I use a 10TB internal drive in my computer for my images and that one internal drive backs up to a Synology 2 bay unit that holds two 10 TB Iron wolf drives... and yes I use RAID 0. So I use my internal drive to edit from then backup to my Synology NAS which makes two backups (one on each drive) then the Synology box uploads my files to Backblaze B2. So I have three copies of my files plus one off site backup. The synology box also is used as a photo station and for backing up all the other computers in the house. If your a pro and have clients thn by all means invest 3,500.00 in the unit he discussed it's worth it, but if your a hobby dude like me...well my solution is working out just fine.

@picsbyrob 2 жыл бұрын

Great job explaining a complicated topic. I actually bought a Synology system 2 months ago and decided to go with SHR-2 and am happy with it so far. I use it to backup all my family's computers to a central network location, as well as store all my photos and videos. I have noticed that my network access to the Synology system needs to be improved. Accessing Synology over WiFi and even a direct Ethernet connection into the Synology system is about 1/2 as fast as a locally attached SSD, , so if you do any future videos on Synology systems, I would be interested in your recommendation for how to improve the network performance. Thanks for your videos.

@hai.d.nguyen Жыл бұрын

I just updated my Synology from 1 GbE to 10GbE and the speeds are comparable with SSDs on USB-C.

@Mrbenbarbie 2 жыл бұрын

Hey here second. Wow. Always enjoy your content

@pal2tech 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Ben!!!!! Awesome to see you here!!

@zootmojo 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff! Will you also do something on backup strategies? And the cloud?

@zackgoldsmith 2 жыл бұрын

This is a great video - thank you! Do you know when you might release the next in the series? Looking at buying a NAS in the next couple weeks... (fingers crossed for some Black Friday deals).

@donsylvester5275 2 жыл бұрын

Good vid. Suggestion: Pls consider doing a piece on "best practice" re file structures and naming conventions for pics/videos. I don't want to be 'constrained' by a NAS vendor-specific Photo App. If I can safely remote access my NAS files from anywhere, then I can see-show-manipulate easily using a 'universal' Photo App like MS Photos or video app like VLC. This 'best practice' vid would benefit everyone.

@jasonzondor4788 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you again for another great video! I would like to make a couple comments tho. 1) For RAID 5, you loose the capacity of one whole drive plus a percentage of the other two. 2) All drives in a RAID have to be the exact same size. I believe Synology's SHR allows this but traditional RAID setups don't allow this.

@Bradum 2 жыл бұрын

This is not accurate. 1) For RAID 5 you ONLY lose the capacity of one drive, but the parity blocks are spread across all the drives in the array. 2) All drives do not have to be the same size, but you only get the capacity of the smallest drive in the array. e.g. if you configue RAID 0 with a 4TB and 6TB drive you only get 8TB capacity.

@jon-sully 2 жыл бұрын

Lol great illustrations with the prints. I think it's probably worth defining better what "backup" means. From a software/hardware standpoint, I would consider RAID 1, 5, 6, and 10 all to be great 'backups'. If we (as users) choose to delete a file then want it back later, at least personally, I wouldn't consider that a 'backup' need or use case. That's just bad user choices 😬 To me, 'backup' is for when there's an actual hardware failure, theft, or cloud issue where files are lost beyond our control. In those ways, I'd personally consider those great 'backups'. (But should not be your ONLY backup) Totally agree with you though - RAID 6 if you can afford it, RAID 5 if you can't afford enough drives for R6 (upgrade later). I can't say for certain but I would imagine SHR is actually just RAID under the hood and the "SHR" layer is just configuration-easiness. I wouldn't think Synology would want to reimplement their own new proprietary storage mechanism when RAID has been made so bulletproof after so long and so many versions.

@quikee9195 2 жыл бұрын

A backup is a copy of data with which you can restore the data in case of data loss. If you delete the data by mistake it is categorised as data loss and RAID doesn't protect you from this. You also said theft - disks in RAID are usually together in the same device, which doesn't protect you against theft. There are also corruptions that can happen for which RAID by itself doesn't help you, but modern RAID based filesystem (like ZFS) do - metadata corruption, bit-rot, corruption during transport,...

@martinbelusa1482 2 жыл бұрын

Love this. Is there any update on the NAS drives video? Thanks

@LeslieBigos 2 жыл бұрын

This was very interesting but I am hobbyist and I just can't afford to go with the RAID 5 or 6 model. I bought myself a synelogy and will use it to store my files and then had a local backup and a cloud backup. It's the most I can afford at this time.

@cm4340 2 жыл бұрын

Hello Chris, thank you so much for this perfect video 😃 Could you please explain your workflow with such a Synology nas ? 😇 Because I have a Synology Nas attached to my local (gigabit ethernet) network, and it isn't fast enough to edit my pictures on it with Capture One (Capture One seems to update the picture preview or other datas everytime I edit something, and it slows down the process). I have to store and edit the photos on my Macbook before to archive them on the nas. This isn't ideal, this is long and risky. Did i make a mistake? Thank you so much with your soooo useful channel. 🙂

@marcusslade9804 2 жыл бұрын

Great info, Chris…and enteraining. I am deep into my NAS research and expect that a Synology unit will be what I shoot for in due course. Couple questions: everyone says that a NAS setup (even RAID 6) is not its own backup and I get that. However, how do you backup a NAS unit that itself may have 40, 60 or 72 TB+ of data? With a second NAS similarly configured? Is that what you are doing with multiple NAS units? Currently, I use a five bay Drobo DAS, configured for dual disk redundancy (functionally, RAID 6) that in turn is backed up twice more with external WD desktop drives (8TB and now 14TB drives). My challenge is that my data storage is growing rapidly so I am thinking of adding a Synology NAS but I would continue working off the DAS. Under those circumstances, would adding the NAS qualify as backup? If you can’t answer this here, maybe you can do so in the course of future videos in this series? Thx again.

@bfs5113 2 жыл бұрын

IMO, you may need to come up with a file storage and backup methodology. Currently, your DAS acts as a single user file server and you may look into expanding in that direction. Even with a file server, you still need to backup the data. RAID eases the down time from hard disk failure and postpone the fix later, but not much help if it is a NAS failure. That takes redundancy, such as the best practice of having backup to backup. For instance, I have three NAS without using RAID. If the primary fails, then I just switch over to the secondary and replace the failed unit with a new one (or hard disks). Furthermore, my overall backup methodology extends beyond data, which include hardware such as computers, switch, print server, printer, etc. Even some of my files have 12 copies of different or the same generations, like the songs I digitized for my portable music player. Maybe you can try sketch out a diagram/chart of various components and connections. Putting down estimated size and speed needed and research the necessary hardware and software solutions to achieve the desired configurations. Seeing the configuration visually, you can conceptualize your setup and interrelationship between components. As far as backup, it should be for emergency uses or special purposes only. However, some people bought their NAS as an off-the-self file server as well. If that is the methodology or choice, so be it. First or rebuild time can be long and tedious, but sometime doing it with backup data, offline initially can ease the process. As far as backup to backup, the ideal configuration is a duplicate and done sequentially. But reality probably is using old NAS/DAS as secondary and/or tertiary, while older or insignificant files go to archive. Hence, everything is really comes down to money. 🙂

@thomasgrimes922 2 жыл бұрын

My desktop Dell XPS computer is old and runs on Win 7 64 bit. The motherboard will not recognize any hard drive that I have tried to use with larger than 4 TB capacity. I was concerned if I bought 6 or larger TB capacity spinning type SAT drives, they might not work with my computer. I could not find an answer to that question online. I bought a 6 Bay synology DS620 unit and 6 Samsung 2 TB SSD drives because I though SSD would be a better choice than the heavy duty spinning type drives. I selected RAID 10 because it would provide about 5.5 TB redundancy and the same capacity storage. I am 83 years old, and not likely to need more than 5-6 TB storage capacity for my photo files (nothing else is on the DS620) and I have about 3.5 TB data stored now. Should I reformat the DS620 to RAID 6 or SHR-2? I also back up the data on a 4 TB spinning drive . One last question, I set up my computer to reserve a letter drive to access my DS620 data, but when I turn off the computer the letter drive that accesses the desk station is not found when I reboot the computer. I believe this link loss has something to do with you have to be connected to the DS unit and reassign the letter drive (via Map whatever) each time one wants to access the desk station from their computer. Obviously, my technical knowledge is lacking in computer science.

@konstantinospappas6023 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. I was just about to get a Synology and I am grateful for all the very valuable information as I am absolutely ignorant of this staff. One of my questions is a Synology with 4 drives can use drives of different capasity....eg. 2 TB, 4TB 10 TB and 4TB....? If yes What is the benefit of that? Thank you very much for your time and efford. Always your videos are so helpfull

@jemmanphotography3009 Жыл бұрын

Hi! Did you ever end up producing a video that covers setup, drives and models? I can't seem to locate one in your profile. Would love to hear more!

@andersonfotografo 2 жыл бұрын

Pal, help-me with something, please. Is there any setting to make the xt-4 more "trigger-fast"? I wanted to have as little time as possible when I think about the photo and when I click, to register the "decisive moment". There seems to be a delay between the click and the final photo. is there a way to fix this in some camera configuration? Thanks!

@JimSykes 2 жыл бұрын

You can try using the Pre-shot ES feature. Camera must be in CH drive mode and electronic shutter mode. While the shutter is half-pressed images are being written continuously into the buffer. When shutter is fully pressed then the shot(s) you get with the button pressed and also the buffered images leading up to that are recorded to the memory card. The idea being that if you are late pushing the button or there is lag, you still get the shot(s) you would have normally missed. (By the way, this will fill up memory cards really quickly!)

@andersonfotografo 2 жыл бұрын

@@JimSykes Thank you!!

@mr_jarble 2 жыл бұрын

Great video as always :D. You do a great job of breaking down a very complex and imo exciting topic. I cant wait to see how you configure your setup over the next few videos. Personally I like to play fast and lose with raid 0 ;). But I have a very comprehensive backup system in place that mirrors my data onto a local server and then to an offsite as well. That said all that is on my personal setup at work things are so backed up you would not believe. Events are shot in triplicate on SD cards, local raid 1 disk, and cloud simultaneously. Then the footage is ingested to a server that is multisite resilient then copies are made from that master for editing. The editing machines are raid 1 and cloud redundant and well you get the point we are very resilient.

@GeoffGrant2010 2 жыл бұрын

You didn’t finish the series on storage did you? If so, I missed it. What is your overall recommendation on type of storage and brand? I would like to do a local network, so I can access files from anywhere (I have poor rural wi-fi and the cloud isn’t a great solution- for individual files maybe, but not backup, or even collections). I understand that Adobe doesn’t allow multiple catalogs on a local network (haven’t tried it)?? I haVe about 4T storage and growing. So, what’s a good solution? I’d appreciate your thoughts on the subject! Thanks!

@ArgentoRAWRz 2 жыл бұрын

Do you have a video with Lightroom and Synology ? Or how u migrate from a bunch of disks to a synology nas amd saving there??

@scotthamm106 2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for the insight! It's NOT a boring concept for me! Now my question is, is there any difference between HDD and NVME? If there is not any difference between HDD and NVME, then what do you think of OWC Thunderblade (4 nvme's) or Thunderblade x8 (8 nvme's) running on Thunderbolt 4/USB4? Much appreciated!

@danielscheerer3032 8 ай бұрын

I just bought a Synology system and have appreciated these videos! But did you ever follow this on up with the setup video?? Yours are better than Synology's so hoping to find it!

@wretchedworm 4 ай бұрын

excellent video. is there a follow up to this?

@princetarun 2 жыл бұрын

Crystal Clear Explanation 👌 Saving This In my Playlist Future Reference. Have u Tried installing 10 Gbe Ethernet For Faster Work Flow Maybe In Future Video

@VideoCanuk 2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate the disclaimer but unless you are required to return the expansion bay and 10TB drives, that's a "gift" worth more than US$2000. More power to you and thanks for putting out these helpful and informative videos.

@shogunharvey 2 жыл бұрын

RAID 1 will not "sync" a faulty disk to a functioning disk. If one drive fails, you simply replace it with a new one and the data is automatically copied to the new disk. You're correct in saying it's not a backup solution. It isn't, only because you still have one point of failure... The raid controller. That being said, raid 1 is a fantastic option if you have two identical disks. Also, you may want to stop shaking your mechanical drives. 🙃

@SanderBenders 2 жыл бұрын

I think the disks experience more "wiggle & bump" from all the transportation from the factory to your doorstep then Chris can induce in the few moments of shaking this unit so I wouldn't worry about it to much. These Seagate HDD's have a shock rating of 250Gs when not powered on. They can be dropped up to a foot without damage, depending on the floor surface.

@GeoffGrant2010 2 жыл бұрын

Very helpful. It might have been a bit more clear to track one example of total photo storage, e.g. 4T. Then, how many disks of what size would you use for total storage?? Why, can’t it be backup, except that it’s not offsite? Why can’t a configuration be 4T primary storage and another 4T for backup? Thanks for your help!