The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/alesdi on 2024-08-17 19:38:04.
I’m a musicIan, with a roommate who’s also a musician, and we shared an in home studio. I have a pretty large sample library - around 600gb - that I want to keep on external drives to save space on my computer. I’d like to have two versions of this drive, one to keep in my room, where I produce if the studio is being used or if people are over, and one to keep in the studio and take with me when I’m traveling. I run everything off a MacBook Pro M3Max. I’m someone who really values plug and play so I can just hook my computer into a workstation and go. I’d really prefer not to have to reroute my libraries in my DAW every time I hook up to each of the setups.
I’m frequently adding samples to the library, and it would be really nice to have these two drives automatically share data with one another somehow if possible, but I don’t mind plugging them both into the computer every once in a while to update the libraries to match if I need to. But I’d like my computer to recognize them the same way when I plug it in. It’s worth noting that unless I need to combine the drives manually, every so often, there shouldn’t be any reason to have them both connected at the same time. So with all the background out of the way my question is really what’s the best way to do this?? I don’t mind some front end setup if it gets things working more seamlessly for the long haul. All ideas are on the table but I’d prefer not to have to go buy more hardware if possible lol