BonnyTideTimes

Sorry for confusion, it is the only copy of these files. It uses 'beyond RAID' I believe.

I have no backup of the DROBO 16TB. It has been very reliable for a good few years now. So any new NAS/Server would provide main store of critical DATA. As stated in above post just worried about have one server of critical data in case it fails.

🤣 I'm sometimes as accident prone as Johnny English according to others. Yes, I think option 3 would be best for me and it's been sitting in front of me all along. Thanks for advice on Gigabyte. Any recommendations? OK, Maybe this is where I'm being a bit 'Johnny' 🤣 but I am worried about having all my critical data on one box (although 10times better than what I have now). Unless I archive off photos onto removable disks. Don't really want to use cloud as with that volume of DATA it would be quite expensive and of course privacy. The DROBO looks like it has USB 3.0 Standard-A plug on the back as well as a spare thunderbolt port, so yes your right that would be best way to transfer data.

HI all, I'm Jon an Englishman living in South Africa at the moment. I have a data storage problem to solve and moving from a country where anything is available to a country where choice is not as great has made things less straight forward. My Synology NAS has failed. It is an older model and this has focused my mind on how vulnerable our data is and I need to sort something out. My wife is an amateur photographer, she has basically accumulated 16 TB of photos (Most in RAW format) a lot of which is family photos of our kids growing up. On top of this I need to back up our workstations and try and get data organized between our family unit of 4. Also, I have a relatively small library of movies which are mainly DVD rips. These are played via PLEX (I have lifetime pass) to our AppleTV. My wifes data is stored on DROBO Thunderbolt connected to her iMAC. It is quite a few years old and I have no secondary back up of it and she is currently running low on space (it has 5 4TB drives). Whilst I have told my wife to start converting her photos to High Quality JPEG this is going to take a lot of time and also she just looks at me strangely 🙂 so I guess it up to me to sort it. How do I approach this? 1) Do i build 2 servers lower power and cost and duplicate them knowing 1 will eventually fail. or 2) The local computer shop has quoted for two QNAP NAS. This doesn't feel right to me from the perspective of cost and serviceability. or 3) I have desktop in a Fractal Design case, i7-8700k cpu on a Asus prime z-370-p motherboard, 16gb ram and GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. It has plenty of space for drives. This is currently used as my desktop running UbuntuMATE and Windows10. But would I need to build another server for redundancy? I could buy a reasonably low powered desktop for replacement for me i only play the odd game of DOTA now and then. Having done my research UnRaid seems the best option for me if I go self build, with the most flexibility. I have a slow cobbled together home network using Devolo plugs so read right speeds are going to be restricted anyway and an ASUS router. This leads to considering how to get 16TB off DROBO on to the solution reasonably quickly. I am going round in circles on this now, just need to make decision and do it. Couldn't cope with losing all our family memories. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Jon