NAS with RAID to store my photos and videos?
I have the following Apple products: iMac, MacBook Pro, iPad Mini, Apple TV, and two iPhones. I'm running OX X Mavericks. I store all my videos and photos (30k +) on a 1TB external hard drive. I back up that drive and the iMac and MacBook drives to TimeMachine 2TB external drive. Need a more secure system for backup and redundancy.
I'm a marketing guy, not a tech guy, but I know enough to know that I'm playing with fire the way I have it set up now. It's too much for the cloud and the cloud makes me very paranoid anyway.
So I'm thinking of buying a Synology DS412 NAS with 4 separate WD Red 4TB NAS Interal Hard Drives and setting up a RAID system. I'd still use the 2TB drive as an external backup once a month and store it someplace other than my house. (until I have more than 2TB worth of stuff, and then I'd have to get a bigger drive). Or should I just buy 5 internal HD and swap out one of them every month and keep that one in a separate location?
Does this make sense?
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iPhoto: How to move the Library to an EHD
Make sure that the EXT Drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled).
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
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iPhoto
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