I am trying to decide on a storage solution for my external backups. I use Veritas System Recovery to create weekly restore points in Windows. I need about 15TB to store the volume of data that I would like to keep. I currently have an 8TB External drive, which works, but I'm not able to back up everything that I want and I can't keep the restore points for as long as I should.
Since there aren't any stand-alone external drive options in the neighborhood of 15TB, my 2 best options seem to be:
The benefits of Option 1 would be lower price, faster reads/writes, and the ability to disable the drive when not in use to protect my restore points (I may be able to do this with a NAS too but I don't have any experience in that area).
The benefits of Option 2 are the ability to store the drive in a safer location, my basement, versus having it upstairs next to my PC. That also has the benefit of eliminating any noise in my office, since the NAS enclosure could be isolated in my basement storage closet. The ability to access from multiple different devices on my network wouldn't really be a benefit here, since my use case is for backups only and not data sharing.
What would the experts recommend that I do in my situation? Is there anything else I am overlooking, or other options I could consider? Thanks!
Since there aren't any stand-alone external drive options in the neighborhood of 15TB, my 2 best options seem to be:
- RAID 0 (2x8TB) using a DAS RAID Enclosure
- RAID 0 (2x8TB) using a NAS
The benefits of Option 1 would be lower price, faster reads/writes, and the ability to disable the drive when not in use to protect my restore points (I may be able to do this with a NAS too but I don't have any experience in that area).
The benefits of Option 2 are the ability to store the drive in a safer location, my basement, versus having it upstairs next to my PC. That also has the benefit of eliminating any noise in my office, since the NAS enclosure could be isolated in my basement storage closet. The ability to access from multiple different devices on my network wouldn't really be a benefit here, since my use case is for backups only and not data sharing.
What would the experts recommend that I do in my situation? Is there anything else I am overlooking, or other options I could consider? Thanks!