I'm a video editor putting together a storage solution for someone I work closely with. I'm very new to this larger-scale storage stuff. I do my editing off a working SSD currently and that's fine, I'm needing a significant and reliable backup to that that gets backed up to cloud.
After some research, I've landed on a QNAP RAID solution however, I need some help on specifics.
At first, I was going to go with a QNAP TR-004 populated with four 28 TB seagate drives using the QNAP hardware for a RAID 5 configuration, which would be backed up to a Backblaze personal plan.
HOWEVER, my client is wanting to have some future proofing. Would it make sense to jump up to a QNAP TVS-h474-PT-8G-US 4 Bay?
I was avoiding NAS because of the extra cost of backup however, I'm starting to have doubts about future proofing this setup.
could anyone help me figure out the advantages or have an alternate solution that might help?
EDIT: Also! Does anyone know if the TVS-h474-PT-8G-US 4 Bay shows up as a drive when connected via USB C like the 004 does? if that's the case could I still use it functionally as a DAS and keep Backblaze personal?