I’ve just rarely had a good experience of a large file move in Windows. The first thing to realise is that it’s not wise to do a move of this size via a PC. But the photos alone that I wanted to move came to 1.1TB.

But the important stuff is on the NAS drives). That means moving photos to the new drive and leaving everything else on the old one (I say “everything” but clearly I have a whole pile of other hard drives in cases and loose. The first thing I wanted to do was spread the load. I installed a couple of WD Red 3TB drives, again in a RAID array, and I was away.

It’s the cheapest drive they make, but I don’t need it to do a great deal. I also instigated a regular “offsite backup” another simple Seagate external drive which I kept at work in my desk draw, regularly bringing home to ensure that the NAS was backed up in another location (sadly a former colleague once had his hard drive stolen in a house break-in even though the value of the hard drive was probably quite low).īut even being fairly ruthless over what photos I keep, my NAS was getting dangerously close, so earlier this week I decided to invest in an additional Synology DS214se. There are 2 x 2TB drives in a RAID array to give me redundancy. Since getting my first NAS, I was pretty happy.

In particular I was worried about music, video and mostly photos. I first bought a DS210j about two or three years ago when I started to get a bit more concerned about how well backed up my data is. I now have a couple of Synology NAS drives. This is going to be a bit dry, but it may or may not help others. Note: Just to be clear – I’ve installed Plex on a DS210j and not a DS214se.

Plex media server synology