{"id":4400,"date":"2015-01-04T17:39:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T17:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:39:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T17:39:46","slug":"more-thoughts-on-home-data-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/01\/04\/more-thoughts-on-home-data-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"More Thoughts on Home Data Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been talking about storage for a very long time. Just check all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/#q=site:adam-jackson.net%2Fblog+storage\">of the blog posts that reference it<\/a>. Most recently, I put most of the long-time issues behind me by <a href=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/07\/29\/update-on-my-home-networking-project\/\">setting up a NAS in my home with 12 terabytes of storage<\/a>. Here\u2019s today\u2019s setup:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Synology NAS w\/ two 6-Terabyte WD Red Hard Drives<\/li>\n<li>One 4 Terabyte LaCie Blade Runner USB3 plugged into the NAS (Time Machine for 3 computers that back up over the network)<\/li>\n<li>One 2 Terabyte Western Digital MyBook USB2 plugged into the NAS for things I can afford to lose but don\u2019t want to get rid of<\/li>\n<li>Two 4 Terabyte LaCie D2 Quadra Drives plugged into my iMac 27\u201d upstairs. They\u2019re FW800 daisy chained but connected to my iMac via a Thunderbolt to FireWire 800 adapter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The setup is very simplified from where we were just 6 months ago. Still, every single hard drive in my house is at 75% capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The one drive plugged into my iMac is a production drives as a temp storage cache for Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom 5. It\u2019s also full of scratch files from personal projects I work on and those final projects once completed get moved to my NAS. The second LaCie drive is actually full of some files that simply don\u2019t fit on the NAS such as \u2018life archives\u2019 going back to 1997 when I first started creating digital content like blog posts, photos, movies, school work and a lot of archives created for my dad like flyers for his personal training, things like that. I\u2019d love to be able to fast-forward to 2020 and have dual 10-terabyte drives in my NAS and therefore completely store all of my archives on the NAS w\/ just one drive for Time Machine backups attacked to is via USB.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not possible today.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, I want to eliminate all hard drives from my office because my office is also where I sleep (1 bedroom house) and the LaCie drives almost never turn off and they\u2019re quite loud adding too much white-noise to an otherwise quiet house on the lake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019ve been shopping around for some options that I can plug into the NAS to make this current annoyance go away. What I need is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lots of storage (at least 10 terabytes)<\/li>\n<li>Not a lot of disk speed (5400 RPM is fine)<\/li>\n<li>USB3 of eSATA connectivity (ThunderBolt would be nice)<\/li>\n<li>Reliability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was looking at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacie.com\/us\/products\/product.htm?id=10622\">LaCie 8big Rack Thunderbolt\u2122 2<\/a> but it\u2019s only Thunderbolt but basically a reliable 1U Rack-mounted 12 terabyte configuration (that\u2019s expandable) sounds like heaven. Let\u2019s take an exact opposite approach. There\u2019s the new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236732\">WD My Book 6TB USB 3.0 3.5&#8242;<\/a>\u2019 that is at an attractive $249 price. I can buy 2 of these for $500 and retire the two LaCie drives that I\u2019ve literally had since 2008 (pictured below in 2009)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View 'Unboxing the new Core i7 iMac' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/4174687825\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Unboxing the new Core i7 iMac\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2751\/4174687825_97f549e476_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Unboxing the new Core i7 iMac\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hard drives in the enclosures died a while ago and I upgraded them 2 years ago to a larger model. I can also retire that 2 terabyte My Book Drive from 2009 so basically eliminating 1 full hard drive from my setup and adding 2 terabytes of additional storage to the network. Not a bad idea. It would be a slight power savings and eliminate the noise from my bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll have to ignore the consideration that using a network drive @ 5400 RPM for a Final Cut Pro scratch drive might be impossible but if it is, I can grab an ultra Quiet recently updated<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacie.com\/us\/products\/product.htm?id=10629\">\u00a0LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt\u2122<\/a> that carries a terabyte of storage via ThunderBolt for $199. it\u2019ll remain behind my iMac and the enclosure is so thick that you get very little noise. The drive is slow @ 5400 RPM but it\u2019ll be directly attached to the iMac so therefore a pretty efficient operation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Until 8-10 terabyte 3.5\u201d drives become a reality, I think the next network update will be purchasing two of the WD 6TB USB3 drives and one of the Rugged Thunderbolt drives and that will increase total storage by 3 terabytes, reduce energy costs and noise and make storage far simpler. New Setup:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12 Terabytes in the NAS<\/li>\n<li>4 Terabytes via Blade Runner on NAS for Time Machine<\/li>\n<li>6 Terabytes WD MyBook on NAS for Life Archives<\/li>\n<li>6 Terabytes WD MyBook on NAS for everything else OR a duplicate of Life Archives in case complete failure happens on first Mybook<\/li>\n<li>1 Terabyte LaCie ThunderBolt connected to iMac as a scratch disk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This will also mean that finally all of my drives are low-power USB 3 \/ Thunderbolt drives bringing me into the modern era.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Another note on network miscellaneous things, I did check out the Retina iMac in an Apple Store yesterday (nearest store is almost 2 hours away). It\u2019s gorgeous in person but I think I\u2019m going to wait for the first refresh to grab one. Just a peronsal decision but it is gorgeous and very fast. I also got to see a Mac Pro in person for the first time. 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