Hello,
I'm looking someone to give me advice on the set up for the two Macs I use. I have a new Mac Studio and currently an older 2012 Mac Pro. I use the Mac Studio for 3D work and the older Mac pro for Adobe Creative Suite, Billings Pro and Email etc... basically I want to have an external hard drive(s) that I can access from both machines. Ideally if I had two separate hard drives, one for all my 3D textures, materials and files which are quite large and the other hard drive for all my standard work files, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop along with folders of logos and stock images etc.... I would then look to use two small portable hard drives I have as Time Machine backups of each of the external hard drives so that I can have that backup off site in case anything happens to the main hard drive. The work I have for each sector of my business has never exceeded 1TB so two external hard drives of 2TB each would be more than enough to future proof for next 3/4 years easy. Basically can anyone tell me whether a NAS or DAS drive would do my job because I am getting confused with some drives being linked or only working with the cloud and I don't want or need any link to the cloud. My two machines are side by side on two desks. I have viewed tons of hard drives from Terramaster, Synology, WD, Lacie etc... but my head is fried. I'm happy to spend up to £500, I think anything I have seen costs less than that. I intend to upgrade my 2012 Mac Pro later this year to maybe an M1 Mac Mini but for now I need this external set up to work with my two existing Macs and then when I upgrade, it should be a simple plug and play option with all my work transferred to the external Macs.
I would appreciate any help or guidance which I can't seem to get elsewhere. If anyone needs any extra information, please just ask.
I'm looking someone to give me advice on the set up for the two Macs I use. I have a new Mac Studio and currently an older 2012 Mac Pro. I use the Mac Studio for 3D work and the older Mac pro for Adobe Creative Suite, Billings Pro and Email etc... basically I want to have an external hard drive(s) that I can access from both machines. Ideally if I had two separate hard drives, one for all my 3D textures, materials and files which are quite large and the other hard drive for all my standard work files, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop along with folders of logos and stock images etc.... I would then look to use two small portable hard drives I have as Time Machine backups of each of the external hard drives so that I can have that backup off site in case anything happens to the main hard drive. The work I have for each sector of my business has never exceeded 1TB so two external hard drives of 2TB each would be more than enough to future proof for next 3/4 years easy. Basically can anyone tell me whether a NAS or DAS drive would do my job because I am getting confused with some drives being linked or only working with the cloud and I don't want or need any link to the cloud. My two machines are side by side on two desks. I have viewed tons of hard drives from Terramaster, Synology, WD, Lacie etc... but my head is fried. I'm happy to spend up to £500, I think anything I have seen costs less than that. I intend to upgrade my 2012 Mac Pro later this year to maybe an M1 Mac Mini but for now I need this external set up to work with my two existing Macs and then when I upgrade, it should be a simple plug and play option with all my work transferred to the external Macs.
I would appreciate any help or guidance which I can't seem to get elsewhere. If anyone needs any extra information, please just ask.