Hello all,
Before I start I'm relatively amatuerish at what I'm about to describe but tend to pick things up quite easily with some assistance.
What I'd like is to be able to have is external storage, that might sound easy but what I want it for is as follows.
I've got a Macbook Pro that I use for my photography, it only has 500gb of storage so I want to archive old images on to a NAS drive, but still have access to them as / when required and use them in Lightroom / Photoshop.
The external storage will also be used to store music and other media that I want to stream to my TV (via an Apple TV?).
Ideally I'd like this to grow to a functional backup system so if /when a disk does go bang then I don't lose all my files.
I assume NAS is the right path to take but I'd obviously like to do this at the best value for money. I have a few SATA drives lying around that could potentially be utilised.
I'm not too fussed about being able to hotswap drives as I don't think that is a function I'd use, so there is not a lot of point paying for that additional functionality if I'm not going to use it.
I also would rather manage everything from the Macbook pro rather than have a seperate pc server running 24/7.
Before I start I'm relatively amatuerish at what I'm about to describe but tend to pick things up quite easily with some assistance.
What I'd like is to be able to have is external storage, that might sound easy but what I want it for is as follows.
I've got a Macbook Pro that I use for my photography, it only has 500gb of storage so I want to archive old images on to a NAS drive, but still have access to them as / when required and use them in Lightroom / Photoshop.
The external storage will also be used to store music and other media that I want to stream to my TV (via an Apple TV?).
Ideally I'd like this to grow to a functional backup system so if /when a disk does go bang then I don't lose all my files.
I assume NAS is the right path to take but I'd obviously like to do this at the best value for money. I have a few SATA drives lying around that could potentially be utilised.
I'm not too fussed about being able to hotswap drives as I don't think that is a function I'd use, so there is not a lot of point paying for that additional functionality if I'm not going to use it.
I also would rather manage everything from the Macbook pro rather than have a seperate pc server running 24/7.