NAS units are usually networking devices. So a direct connection as you say makes more sense and not over network. Just a working device with an additional layer of safety. The goal is to use some disks as scratch disks for photo editing and others for files storage while I close projects and they move from a “to edit” to a “ edited” folder but, need them easy accessible for re-edit sometimes. Raid 5 configuration seems to be a good compromise both for safety and speed. I am sorry forgot to mention the use of HDD. Network drive as a continuous of bytes like a local drive. Will always take longer because of the TCP/IP and ethernet Would personally go with the local solution as network transfers If you are copying data back and forth on a daily basis, I
One other note as far as local vs, network solution, if the use isįor strictly archive and backup, either solution is fine. Give them a callīefore making the OWC choice to see if it has been fixed. Solution was broken by the latest Big Sur update. On that note, OWC has stated that at the moment, their Soft Raid (NOTE: When I refer to USB I mean all the usb 3 "flavors"). SSDs, you may only see marginal speed improvements over USB. If you are populating with HDD, Thunderbolt is a waste of moneyĪs it has zero advantage over a USB solution in terms of speed.Īlso, unless you use an enclosure that is populated with NVMe First, are you going to populate the enclosures with HDD or SSD?