I had posted a while back that I had been having issues with my OWC thunderbolt drivebay and was looking to upgrade. A friend offered me a good deal on his QNAP 458a 4-bay NAS.
I loaded it up with four 16T WD drives as RAID 5 and 16G of RAM, which gives me something like 43T of storage. I copied my photo files over, pointed lightroom at it rather than the OWC and found all the missing images in my backup and everything catalogs . TLDR; Using it as my primary storage doesn't work. It might be possible to get it to work, but with Macos losing connection to it, the slower speeds and related, it was just too painful. It does seem to work very well as first level backup and gives me a NAS for up here. My old synology 4bay is in Felton as offsite storage of everything up to about a year ago. I also have other drives to use as second and third level backup down here. It would be really nice if it also had a way of connecting to the computer directly as an external drive rather than only a NAS. I'm luke warm on it as a NAS, it has a lot of features that I don't need, and I haven't really spent the time and effort to learn my way around it. It is also quite a few years old, but I think it may have the current UI. By plugging into the OWC via USB 3 rather than TB my computer doesn't crash nearly as often. I had previously solved this problem by disabling something about sleep, but with the latest version of Monterey the problem has returned. Hopefully I won't run out of space on the OWC until I have the resources to replace both it and the trashcan mac I'm using to process photos. The longer I can put that off the more processing power I'll be able to get for my dineros. I may be forced to do something before too long because I'm running up against end of life of LR running on a version of Macos that will run on the trashcan. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from ret13est -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
