It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/little_somniferum on 2024-10-11 17:51:01.

Only this sub can give me the best answer.

My friend is a freelancer photographer for newspapers. He's growing old and inevitable becoming a dinosaur with technology, but does great photography. He has these old Lacie externals running 24/7 and they contain about 500TB. I think building a small local server with SSDs and maximum capacity is a better solution but I'm in the dark here. Our friend has a monthly input of 1TB raw photo material and needs to store everything. Another issue that he doesn't want to see is that he has to plug in every device which is max 4TB to find what he needs.

Anybody willing to do some input would be much appreciated. I'm in Europe. What does he need?