Desktop Hard Drives - Opinions

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I currently have a OWC Pro Elite enclosure with 2TB Raid with that being CarbonCopied over to another drive once a month. This is the Mac Mini Photo Library.

The third drive pictured is for Channels DVR.

I have an old Synology with a replacement sitting here yet to be setup. But, I am trying to decide if I want to actually setup to Sinology.

I want to have a very clean/minimal desk, so looking for opinions of going to a single desktop drive for Photos and DVR. Then maybe keep using the Synology as the onsite backup?

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Have you considered OWC’s 4TB ministack for your Mac mini? The $229 price tag sounds incredibly low to me.

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Do the drives need to be on your desk? Mine are all under my desk, out of sight.

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Be sure to update your synology if it hasn’t been recently.

Synology vulnerabilities

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Yes, they could. The Mac Mini is under the desk. Part of my thinking is do I need 3 drives? But, your right I could put them under the desk.

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OH, that looks interesting. I need to check back in on OWC more often.

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The only thing I don’t think is the connection. It’s the old usb. But, the STX version looks cool! I have at least on NVMe laying around.

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Yeah, the STX model looks good. My Mac mini is from 2014 so I haven’t started looking at newer spec’d gear yet. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Do you not have a USB-A port available? If not, an extra cable isn’t that expensive. :slight_smile: