I’m looking to upgrade my storage solution for photography and videography. Currently Im at a mix of cloud storage and a single Seagate 1TB External HDD (I know its horrible but thats why I’m here).
My ideal workflow would be to get an external SSD, currently looking at a Samsung T7 Shield 2TB, that I can edit from and bring on the go, then offload that to a storage solution at home with some level of backup/redundancy. I know I want at least 2 backups that aren’t cloud based, and I don’t mind physically plugging in to offload my files when I need to.
I do want to keep the cost reasonable but I do want it to be automated to some degree. I don’t want to have to be plugging and unplugging multiple drives and physically managing all of the backups if I can avoid it. And I don’t necessarily need a NAS, as I will never really need to access files from outside my home or be in a situation where a DAS solution would be impossible. In a perfect world I would sit at my desk, connect my laptop and my SSD, and let some software copy it to at least 2 independent locations, and that would be it. Then I wipe my portable drive and rinse and repeat.
So what would be my best solution with this? Im hoping to keep the cost, aside from the portable SSD, around $300 or less, but if spending a little more is worthwhile, its not totally out of the question. The ability to upgrade in the future would be nice as well, but my main concern is just getting SOMETHING for now that’s better than what Im using.