Photos on NAS

[frankdarwin]

Hello Mario,
I am facing the problem of having to replace my desktop (HP OMEN with 5 HD slots) due to hardware issues.
However, for cost reasons, I would like to purchase a desktop with fewer than 5 slots.
Currently, all my photos are stored on a separate, local hard drive. The database is located on a different hard drive than the photos. The problem I am facing is this:
For data backup reasons, I would like to continue storing all photos on a separate hard drive. Unfortunately, my new desktop will not have enough space for this.
However, I have sufficient free storage space on my NAS. Therefore, I plan to store all photos on the NAS.
Due to possible performance issues, I would like to ask if there are any objections to this approach.

Kind regards,
Frank

[Mario]

I understand you want to move your photos from your local drive to a NAS.
Except for the fact that a NAS can be 100-1000 times slower than a local SSD, I don't see any problem. Operations like indexing and writing back will be a lot slower on the NAS, though. Depending on the performance on your NAS and your network infrastructure.

I suggest you "finish" (edit, add metadata, ...) the images while they are on a local SSD and move them to the NAS when they ready for archival. Since the cache is local (unless your images are JPG) IMatch can display images stored on a NAS as fast as images stored locally, unless the image must be cached first.

I don't know how many images you have and how much storage you need. I use 2TB external SSD disks now (there are also 4TB SSDs available), which are blazing fast and only require an USB 3 port. A 2TB SSD costs about 130€, which is quite affordable.

[frankdarwin]

Many thanks!

[jch2103]

You may also want to consider the local option, with the NAS for backup. For example, I have two local MVMe drives in my desktop (2 TB system, 4 TB data drive, with IM database on the system drive and > 100,000 photos on the other). I also have a 4TB external USB drive for backups in addition to my NAS.

[frankdarwin]

Thanks!