Howdy, I'm a film editor looking for an "active" solution to my problem.
I have tried Googling this with terms like "cold storage" and "file retrieval" but those are giving me results that aren't applicable to my use-case scenario. I'm sure this setup exists, I just have no idea what it's called or what words to search for it.
My current setup:
I have two drives:
- an "active" 2TB NVMe SSD, where I put all the stuff I'm actively working on
- an "offline" 24TB SATA HDD, where I put all the stuff I'm not actively working on
The folder structure is identical between the drives, but to optimize space, no actual data is duplicated between them.
(Yes, I have both drives backed up to a third drive.)
The problem:
It's getting cumbersome having to manually move files to and from these drives as I need them, especially while preserving the file structure. I always have to dig into every folder to move the individual files because I don't need EVERYTHING in that folder. And it's hard to keep them in sync or avoid file conflicts because every syncing program I've found tries to sync EVERYTHING.
What I want:
Is there a way to automate this process, so that I only ever look at my SSD, but my SSD shows me everything that's on the HDD too as if they're one drive, and when I open a file on the SSD, it transfers it over from my HDD?
Any help would be appreciated!