iMac Pro External storage for iMac Pro setup

[nordicappeal]

Hello! I plan to upgrade my Mac Pro 5.1 to the new iMac Pro for photo and video editing. My main income is from landscape photography and I have around 3 TB of photos and video. I currently have it all stored on two harddrives in the Mac Pro (raid), and external timemachine backup. My idea is to store photos and video on a G-Technology G-RAID. Is is sound to put a TM backup on this as well. How would you set it up in terms of external storage and backup? I have a backup disk stored at our warehouse and one at BackBlaze.

Any suggestion are very welcome! Thanks.

 

[danielwsmithee]

I like using a NAS tucked away cleanly in the basement for backups with 3.5” drives.

Then use an external Thunderbolt enclosure to work from, that has 2.5” SATA SSDs. I like the form factor of the AkiTio Quad Mini, and the OWC Thunderbay 4 mini. You can’t complain about the performance either.

Hopefully in the next year or so external Thunderbolt PCIe SSDs will become more commonplace and come down in price.

I know some people that really like creating an external fusion drive in a quad enclosure as well. 2 HDs + 2 SSDs.