External Storage Hard Drive Comparison for Wedding Photographers. LaCie vs Synology, DAS vs NAS

[@gabrielstone007]

On contrary to many other videos about this topic this was excellent from all aspects!

[@EverAfterPhotographers]

Thanks so much and so sorry for the late reply!

[@jeffwest5783]

Great information and all in one take... wow. Impressed mate.

[@FionatheFiend]

Built my 1821+ earlier this year after doing a lot of research. I populated all bays with 22 TB IronWolf Pro drives and set it up for 2 fault tolerance. Net is 120TB in total with 2X 2TB Western Digital NVME for SSD cache. Also added a 10Gbe Synology OEM card to match my home network speed: Dual Asus GT-BE98 Pro in Mesh with 10 Gbe backhaul paired with numerous 10Gbe Switches; Whole house is wired with numerous CAT8 cables and outlets. This was a great project and this NAS has awesome performance and reliability. I also have 8 4K IP cameras setup for continuous recording and retention for 30 days each. The NAS already came with 2 IP Camera licenses from the factory, I just had to purchase 6 more. All the photos and videos on my cell phones are automatically uploaded and storage on the mobile devices can be freed immediately on command. This NAS does it all. The upfront costs are high but it is well worth and this unit can last for many years. My last NAS was a Synology NAS I put together almost 10 years ago.

[@furiousdoe7779]

Do you need to raid the who NAS (with 4 to 8 drives) , or can you build a DAS (with the 4 other drives ) into the 1821+ . So that you don't need a separate back up place .

[@EverAfterPhotographers]

Hi there! Thanks for the question. You don't need to create a RAID array with your drives on the 1821+ NAS. You could run each drive as an independent storage pool. However keep in mind that two or even 4 separate drives in the same NAS unit does not provide for a good only backup solution. If the NAS motherboard or power supply experiences a failure you will loose access to all the drives even if they are running independently without a RAID configuration. Hope this helps!

[@DarrylZubot]

I have two 2big 40tb LaCie drives and they constantly get corrupted from my Mac Studio ultra. No idea what’s going on or if it is Sonoma causing this. Not disconnecting them or abusing in any way. They worked perfect on Ventura but terrible on Sonoma. I’ve tried every different format, expat, apps, Mac OS journaled. As well I’ve tried one on raid zero and one raid one and they both still somehow got corrupted and refused to mount. Lacie raid manager sees the dives and says they are healthy. Disk utility fails to repair them, only way to fix is to re format.

[@eugenemccafferty2255]

Same problem here Darryl, I have the 20tb version it refuses to mount about every 6 weeks on my Mac (presently a new Mac Mini M4). I’ve had to send the drive back twice, thankfully there’s a 5 year warranty. I’m presently waiting for LaCie to send me a new build version. All in all it’s been a frustrating experience.

[@DarrylZubot]

I recently sent mine to Lacie. They sent me a replacement. So far no issues after a month. But time will tell. Can’t trust these drives

[@eugenemccafferty2255]

LaCie’s support is very good in fairness, this just seems to be a Mac problem and I wish they would just fix it.

[@miguelsilvestri]

this is an excellent video. thanks

[@EverAfterPhotographers]

Glad it was helpful!

[@aslanyureky]

what are the speeds of each ?

[@EverAfterPhotographers]

First, so sorry for the late reply! The speed of each unit depends on the drives used and their configuration. All things being equal though my Synology unit with 4 NAS drives in a RAID 5/SHR is nearly twice as fast as the other two LaCie units.

[@veronicadana2]

Thank you

[@EverAfterPhotographers]

Your are very welcome!

[@MrJensDidriksen]

You need to have a backup in another place. Just having 2, 3 or more copys in you house is not backup. What if your house burn down to the ground? Then all your data is lost. Hide a HD in another lokation and just mirror it with your daily HD once a week or so. Thats what I do. And remember to mirror your HD to new HD every 3 year or so. Than you have a good backup strategy 😊