Needing A NAS

[RandomlySet]

Afternoon all (from the UK).

 

Yesterday I took delivery of a new 4K camera. I make YouTube videos, and for the past 18 months I've been shooting about 80% of my stuff in 4K on a Hero4 Black. 6 months ago, I got a drone, and also shot 4K with that. Then there's phone footage I have. So as you can imagine, a new 4K mirrorless is just going to add to the amount of data I know have!

 

I currently edit on a laptop with 1Tb HDD, and like to try and save all raw footage - although I've just deleted about 250Gb to free up some space. I also have a 1Tb external Seagate HDD that I've had for a few years, but only gets switched on now and then to create back ups....

 

So, what I need to know is, what will I need to set up a home storage solution without costing the earth, and also be expandable?

[lukemcfc]

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[misterman]

4 minutes ago, RandomlySet said:

Afternoon all (from the UK).

 

Yesterday I took delivery of a new 4K camera. I make YouTube videos, and for the past 18 months I've been shooting about 80% of my stuff in 4K on a Hero4 Black. 6 months ago, I got a drone, and also shot 4K with that. Then there's phone footage I have. So as you can imagine, a new 4K mirrorless is just going to add to the amount of data I know have!

 

I currently edit on a laptop with 1Tb HDD, and like to try and save all raw footage - although I've just deleted about 250Gb to free up some space. I also have a 1Tb external Seagate HDD that I've had for a few years, but only gets switched on now and then to create back ups....

 

So, what I need to know is, what will I need to set up a home storage solution without costing the earth, and also be expandable?

buget

[lukemcfc]

3 minutes ago, misterman said:

buget

What is your budget? Please quote me by the way!

[RandomlySet]

I honestly don't know what my budget is just yet. 

Considering all the kit I've purchased this year already, I'm gonna have to do some saving... So for the time being, shall we say preferably £500, absolute max £1k

[Streetguru]

9 minutes ago, RandomlySet said:

I honestly don't know what my budget is just yet. 

Considering all the kit I've purchased this year already, I'm gonna have to do some saving... So for the time being, shall we say preferably £500, absolute max £1k

You could buy something like the Synology solutions, but the low end ones are low end naturally
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Synology-DS216J-Bay-Desktop-Enclosure/dp/B01BNPT1EG/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1509725638&sr=1-1&keywords=Synology

 

Instead if you can find say old PC server parts on the cheap, then you could build a Free NAS box that gives you more options, and if you end up with CPU horsepower or can upgrade to that later, you can also have automated compression happen with the footage to save space and really not lose quality. at least on the final videos.

Also don't buy cheap hard drives

[paddy-stone]

If I were you, I'd wait for the HP proliant micro server gen 8 to come back on a cashback deal, they can be had for approx £160-ish (diskless) and usually get around £50-£60 cashback via redemption. Then just put an extra 4GB ECC ram stick in it to bring it up to 8GB ECC ram, and put freenas or other NAS OS on it, or windows/linux whatever you prefer really. Add some HDDs, I recommend either 4TB WD reds or seagate ironwolf  drives, unless you can afford bigger drives, this NAS only has 4 slots, so bear that in mind. And I would also recommend you have a decent backup too, whether or not you also go for redundancy on the NAS... at least backup the files you can't live without losing is how I paint the needfulness of this.