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