My current setup is a Mac Studio M2 entry level with 1 tb internal drive.
I use a G Drive Professional studio enterprise level NVME SSD for all photo processing and storage. That drive has more than 7 tb in storage. space.
I back up the G drive to an OWC RAID 5 thunderbird DAS drive. using Carbon Copy.
Finally I maintain cloud storage with Backblaze, it backs up both the internal hard drive and the G drive.
In practice the G Drive is quite rapid in working with Legroom Classic as the internal drive. Handles all aspects of importing, sorting and loading files for developing smoothly with little or no lag time.
I use a G Drive Professional studio enterprise level NVME SSD for all photo processing and storage. That drive has more than 7 tb in storage. space.
I back up the G drive to an OWC RAID 5 thunderbird DAS drive. using Carbon Copy.
Finally I maintain cloud storage with Backblaze, it backs up both the internal hard drive and the G drive.
In practice the G Drive is quite rapid in working with Legroom Classic as the internal drive. Handles all aspects of importing, sorting and loading files for developing smoothly with little or no lag time.