Much Ado about Storage
It was inevitable. So far we had been working away trying to manage all our created media by storing in external Hard Drives attached to the main computer without backup . Family stuff was backed up online, but we have a lot more being generated now. With the Insta360 camera generating 5.7K video and our other cameras now recording in 4K, things quickly get out of hand. We decided to just take the hit and bought a NAS server for in this year's Boxing Day sale. Along with the server we had to buy the 4 Hard Disks to be put into it. I first told the computer store guy about the QNAP NAS I wanted to get, to which he gave his bored approval. Then I told him to get me 4 Seagate Barracuda drives. Being a taller guy, he looked down his nose at me and said in his Asian accent, "No Green, it's not good Drive, you buy the Red One for NAS". I paused, I knew what he meant. I said meekly "but, the green drives are on Boxing Day sale and Red ones