What Photography Related Item Have You Bought or Sold This Week?

[mcluckie]

Just got my UGREEN iDX6011 Pro AI-powered NAS. 6 bays, up to 196TB. I’m making two separate NASs, one with 4 20TB Seagate Ironwolf drives (RAID 5) and the last two bays will be a 4 or 8 TB RAID 1. Plan on doing a lot more video.

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I just did a NAS as well. Mostly so I have access to files in the US when I’m living in Hong Kong, but I put my 6 tb of movies and music on there. I’m running Plex Server on it for streaming, with a WiiM Pro for audio to my Audio Research rack. I really live off multiple 6tb ssd bus-powered drives for Lightroom work. Congrats on setting up the NAS!

 

[BasilFawlty]

I just did a NAS as well. Mostly so I have access to files in the US when I’m living in Hong Kong, but I put my 6 tb of movies and music on there. I’m running Plex Server on it for streaming, with a WiiM Pro for audio to my Audio Research rack. I really live off multiple 6tb ssd bus-powered drives for Lightroom work. Congrats on setting up the NAS!

I’m probably going to run Plex as well.

 

[GregO]

I purchased an RF 70-200 F2.8, L, IS, USM lens. I have an RF 100-500 mm lens, but when I put the 1.4 extender on it, I can't get photos in the 100-200 mm range. Also, I was debating between the F2.8 and F4.0. I decided on the F2.8 despite the higher weight and cost because I figure the 100-500 has an f/4.0 aperture at 100 mm so I wasn't getting any better low light advantage with the F4.0 version.

 

[mcluckie]

I’m probably going to run Plex as well.

I did the Synology 4-bay NAS with 6-tb drives. One is all design work, another are personal files, one for photo bu #3, and the 4th are those media files. I picked up the drives a few years ago when they were cheap.

 

[BasilFawlty]

I did the Synology 4-bay NAS with 6-tb drives. One is all design work, another are personal files, one for photo bu #3, and the 4th are those media files. I picked up the drives a few years ago when they were cheap.

I managed to buy 3 of the 4 20TB drives last year before prices started going crazy. I bought the fourth recently from Ebay for over $200 less than from a big box store. It was advertised as band new and when I ran DriveDX on it, it did, in fact, show as being brand new with no hours on it. I lucked out (and per the Seagate Serial Number Checker it is under warranty until 2029.

 

[mcluckie]

Yeah, prices went nuts. Actual I think the price a year ago were crazy low and they’re what they should be today. I have a couple of 15TB drives that couldn’t have been more than $200–but I put them in enclosures on my desktop. Since I really have two homes, the best speed bang for my buck are those bus-powered thunderbolt 4/5 SSDs on my M4 MacBook Pro. There’s no way I’m gonna work in Lightroom through a NAS server, but for me, it’s a good offsite back up and occasional file access; my upload speeds in the US are just too slow.

Have you been accessing offsite?

 

[BasilFawlty]

Have you been accessing offsite?

Well, I haven't got it all set up yet, but I do plan to access from off site. That's one of the beauties of a NAS I think.

 

[mcluckie]

Indeed, it’s the best reason. I live pretty rural in the US and speeds are pretty sucky. Download speeds are great with no lag in any streaming services, but uploads are different story.