Choosing a drive for editing material shot on a small movie set daily. Material is shot, transferred to this drive, and as the rest is being shot editors put together a rough cut for director to see and figure out gaps.
Redundancy is key so we have decided to have raid1 setup. Editing stations are all macbook pros with M2 chips.
We wanted to get 2 8TB sticks and just make 1 raid with them but realized that it’s significantly cheaper to get 4 4TB sticks. We can just make 2 raid 1 drives out of them and put them all in 1 Acasis enclosure. When connected, 2 4TB drives will show up which for us is fine and has no difference from 1 8TB drive in terms of usability. But some people in our team are worried about having 2 drives show up from 1 enclosure and say it’s better to get the 8TB sticks. No one is very tech savvy so we decided to ask for advice online.
Also one more person brought up that SN850x might be an overkill and suggested to go for blue WD nvme instead of black, because our macs are anyway TB4.
Any advice please?