I create gaming videos and have been ramping up my production. While I haven't needed to access my older videos from the last year or so, I want to be able to, at least for the next 1-2 years. I've traditionally used 1080P but have been moving to 1440P format lately, which is generating about a total of 5 GB of data a day.
I have a mostly dedicated 4 TB SSD (I have some games there too) beyond my standard 2 TB OS drive.
Would a slower SSD (I can fit 2 more in the PC with no issues and a gen 3 drive would be fine for this), and Internal HD, or an external drive or some kind be the best option for a sub $150 archive drive of older footage?
I plan on maybe investing in a NAS long term, but I figure I can solve the problem fairly cheaply for now, and in general this is a drive id maybe be using once a month to back stuff up on unless I find I need the footage. If things grow in the next year or two, the budget will change significantly to match where I can go NAS.
Otherwise I'll probably start deleting some of the raw footage and keep the edited stuff long term, which is probably fine given the edited stuff is mostly just trimmed raw footage.