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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
- 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