boy i feel you on this one. I am also a longtime terrestrial photographer so I have a lot of storage needs but astro takes it to another level
I have a 45tb NAS from Synology, which is a base unit plus an expansion. However, I really find the disk speed to be a non-starter for active astro work. It just takes too much time to pull it across the network.?
I also have a 20tb DAS that I got for trying to improve the situation, it¡¯s a drobo attached via USB3 and even it is too slow
So my approach is to use a faster 4tb SSD for active sessions, and once it¡¯s done, i move the files i want to keep over to the NAS or DAS.
I really like both Drobo and Synology. I had a bad experience with losing a bunch of photos on the Drobo, so I now have battery backups on all those drives
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 12:39 PM Jim Waters <jimwaters@...> wrote:
I am getting tired of USB3 SSD's and HDD's floating around that I use to store my PI Projects.? Its no problem for me to build a NAS but I don't have the time or parts.? I have no experience with off-the-shelf NAS Drives.? What are good manufacturers and models to start looking at?? I am currently checking out Western Digital and?Asustor.? What do other do to store images?
I would need RAID 1 (minimum) and about 6 to 8TBytes of total data 'HDD' 7,200 RPM SATA II storage.? Network performance is a big consideration.? My house is hard-wired for 100Mbps.? Software capabilities is another consideration.
