I noticed that the Red 6TB just came out. I already was going to order a 4, but regardless...
At the moment, I'm using a 1TB Black, and it's performed well. However, I made two partitions. One 200+ partition for my OS, and the rest for mass storage. This space has pretty much run dry at this point. My OS partition has about 60GB left, and my storage partition is down to under 1GB...
I do video production, especially with game recording. I also dump all of my camera videos, etc on the mass storage partition, and never really sort through it. I mean, it's all organized, but I don't delete much is what I mean. I like to pretty much archive everything I have haha...
So I'm wondering... The setup I would love right now, is a better HDD for my main drive (OS) probably leaning towards a 1TB Hybrid Drive from whoever... And maybe a 4 or 6TB HDD as my secondary/mass storage drive. What are the implications here? I do also have an external 4TB HDD which I think kinda sucks because I have to plug it into an outlet to use it... But my plan was to basically use the internal 4tb as normal, and back it all up onto the external drive, as a "fake raid" so I always have two copies of everything... But alternatively... I guess maybe I could take out the 4TB drive from the external, use it internally, and maybe get a 4 or 6TB for NAS...
What would you guys suggest here? I'd rather have the larger drive internally, but I guess in practicality, one should have an equal or bigger drive externally for backup space... Any ideas? And suppose I wanted to use the Red 6TB internally... That read/bad sector detecting feature certainly couldn't hurt, right? I think the only other issue is that the Red might possibly be slower in performance. But longevity and data protection could trump that, couldn't it? Hmm... :/
At the moment, I'm using a 1TB Black, and it's performed well. However, I made two partitions. One 200+ partition for my OS, and the rest for mass storage. This space has pretty much run dry at this point. My OS partition has about 60GB left, and my storage partition is down to under 1GB...
I do video production, especially with game recording. I also dump all of my camera videos, etc on the mass storage partition, and never really sort through it. I mean, it's all organized, but I don't delete much is what I mean. I like to pretty much archive everything I have haha...
So I'm wondering... The setup I would love right now, is a better HDD for my main drive (OS) probably leaning towards a 1TB Hybrid Drive from whoever... And maybe a 4 or 6TB HDD as my secondary/mass storage drive. What are the implications here? I do also have an external 4TB HDD which I think kinda sucks because I have to plug it into an outlet to use it... But my plan was to basically use the internal 4tb as normal, and back it all up onto the external drive, as a "fake raid" so I always have two copies of everything... But alternatively... I guess maybe I could take out the 4TB drive from the external, use it internally, and maybe get a 4 or 6TB for NAS...
What would you guys suggest here? I'd rather have the larger drive internally, but I guess in practicality, one should have an equal or bigger drive externally for backup space... Any ideas? And suppose I wanted to use the Red 6TB internally... That read/bad sector detecting feature certainly couldn't hurt, right? I think the only other issue is that the Red might possibly be slower in performance. But longevity and data protection could trump that, couldn't it? Hmm... :/