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HE can't but i have no issues with shadow recovery with very good detail with HE*.
I don't know how much memory you need, but I buy memory as I need it, as the price keeps going down. 4TB drive is under $300. By the time I need more it will probably be 200, and then 100.
You think $1200 is "super cheap"?
If you set that up in RAID for redundancy you don’t end up with 24TB. Even then, it’s a single copy backup so for redundancy you would need the equivalent storage in at least one other location. Not everyone is going to find $1200+ cheap to store their photos.
I use 2 TB versions of those, have about 6 of them. I really like them but there are some reliability issues mentioned in some reviews. If you aren’t already doing it, you should be replicating that drive to another or using another method of backup. It’s also recommended to have an off site copy if the images are of any significance to you. I have had a few hard drives fail in the past and you don’t want that to cause you loss of many images.
I got a deal on the drives. The NAS was $600 and the 6 4TB Ironwolf drives were $200 each hence the $1200 for my setup. This was 2 years ago. That's why i just bit the bullet then. Cheap and no need to storage for years to come
I'm a systems admin for a large US bank. I understand how my NAS works.
Don't really have a need for off site storage. If my house burns down i have bigger issues ava the cost and potential security issues, no thanks. I have everything on Internal storage and backed up on the NAS. Plus, cost of off site storage will eclipse the NAS cost, it's it's cheaper with the NAS
high quality HDD are closer to $20/tb
I keep a duplicate system off site (bank vault). Also includes all our important records
Ya, doing that for my whole computer with iDrive. https://www.idrive.com/
If you have everything backed up on internet storage it sounds like you are using off site storage.
The Fed is data-hungry. I’ve seen the required metadata.
That's not what off site storage is. It's literally off site as in not in your house, not PC. So people mean something like cloud storage in case of theft or something like a fire
But for local storage, you have a gold plated solution, and given your job I'm sure you know it. I'm perfectly happy with data on non-RAID external drive, backup of those drive(s) to slow cheap Time Machine drive, and cloud storage. Three copies of the data. Much less expensive and the performance I see as a user accessing photos is determined by how fast the primary drive is (a directly attached SSD is quite fast). If the primary drive fails, I don't have a business critical need to get the data back any faster than I can restore to a new drive from the Time Machine backup.
Off-site simply means the data is kept off site, it does not specifically mean physical media. You said you have everything on internet storage which would imply external cloud, but maybe that is a type and you meant to type internal storage and backed up on your NAS.
