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Hey guys,
I have several USB harddrives and I've had enough of shuffling files around on external disks.
I would like to have just a single volume and preferably have an automatic backup of that as well.
My first thought was to get a Drobo and shove a few of these drives into that, but I wanted to get some other opinions first. A colleague has suggested buying a Synology NAS and plugging a large external drive into that for backup purposes.
My uses for external drives are:
- Storing media (Large Aperture libraries, movies etc.)
- Backing up (I have Time machine and full disk backup partitions on two separate drives)
I'm thinking Drobo would give me the redundancy I'm after with minimal fuss - a NAS solution would help consolidate 2 drives and have other benefit, but doesn't offer the same level of redundancy.
Any other thoughts?
Cheers!
I have several USB harddrives and I've had enough of shuffling files around on external disks.
I would like to have just a single volume and preferably have an automatic backup of that as well.
My first thought was to get a Drobo and shove a few of these drives into that, but I wanted to get some other opinions first. A colleague has suggested buying a Synology NAS and plugging a large external drive into that for backup purposes.
My uses for external drives are:
- Storing media (Large Aperture libraries, movies etc.)
- Backing up (I have Time machine and full disk backup partitions on two separate drives)
I'm thinking Drobo would give me the redundancy I'm after with minimal fuss - a NAS solution would help consolidate 2 drives and have other benefit, but doesn't offer the same level of redundancy.
Any other thoughts?
Cheers!