Storage Solution

Single Disk solution

• Portable Drive:
  • good up to 5tb each, easy portable,
  • but if your collection large than 5tb or 2 collection more than 5tb, it is hard to re-arrange and move around between disks
• 3.5in Portable Drive:
  • need power adapter, bulky, more time for disk spin up to start
  • if multiple drive, need more power socket to plugin

Multiple Disk Solution

• Hard Disk Dock (>2 slot)
  • good to quick swap naked disk
  • most have diskA to diskB standalone disk clone
  • but not physically stable on desk for long time use
• NAS machine with disk slots
  • built-in RAID support
  • built-in system to configure share, access control, security, backup
  • more ports like Ethernet ports, usb 3.2 transfer speed.
  • but expensive like a mini pc price
• DIY machine with RAID supported motherboard
  • DIY guide, basically a PC build and NAS software setup:
  • ref: Should You Buy or Build a NAS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNY-XAgBEYs
  • good on component choice of upgrade and repair
  • but if you keep your machine on 24/7, you may want to fact in the power consumption cost as well compared to small minified NAS machine

Cloud Storage

• like Google Drive, amazon S3 storage, adobe cloud, other network storage
• built-in security and backup
• global accessibility
• large data maybe trouble to upload and download depending on network
• but on-going money spending
• also features is limited to what those cloud service provide gives