Hi.
I run a small company doing commercial photography.
We have 5 computers where we use Lightroom and Photoshop for color and retouch.
Worst case scenario is when 3 people need to access, copy, or save large amounts of photos.
Our current workflow is as follows. We use one PC as a server and workstation, the main purpose of that one is creative retouching and illustration, not much batch operations on that computer. So we have 1 hard drive shared on that PC and everyone accesses files there. I also have a mirrored HD for safe backup installed and it updates twice a day with "Syncback". We are on a 1Gbps switch.
Our total capacity of installed storage is 2x8 TB discs mirrored and that is roughly the amount of data we use in 6 months. We also keep backups in external drives once we deliver our projects.
Now, we are about to do an upgrade and i am not convinced i need to go the NAS way. Here is my questions.
1. Say i get a 16 core processor 64 GB of ram, a 8GB PCI ssd drive for my main computer and a 10Gbps switch and network controllers.
2. I buy the Qnap TVS-872XT with 2x1 TB nvme drives and 4x10GB HD in Raid 5.
What do you think is the best way to go?
Any other suggestions?
Thank you all.