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Here's a nice CNC alu chassis quad-drive NVME to Thunderbolt for £130: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004344222531.html
I've used a single-drive TB3 caddy from this brand before, working perfectly for 3 years.
Fill it that one with decent cached SSDs, for a fraction of the price of that OWC thing, which is likely made in the same factory...
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Thanks, shooting this week so can't give huge thought rn but I feel if it's going to be my main day to day storage for work (and would be a big hassle to solve/rebuild from backups if it failed) I'd be happy to pay a premium on housing and drives for perceived reliability. In the apple thread no less. I've no experience buying from AliExpress. I don't even know what it really is - presume Chinese Amazon? I'm sure it's fine but would just feel safer with owc or Gtech etc, regardless of whether they're built with the same ingredients. Presume also if there are failures or issues I'm better served from a known brand, buying through CVP or somewhere with a rep in a similar timezone, where I can ship a failed unit to Middlesex, rather than a brand I've never heard of shipping to the other side of the world.
CYOA
I want some software to go through my very poorly organised RAID, identify duplicates and delete them. Mac or windows. I'd also like it to do some kind of copy/offload/checksum processes when on shoots. I know people use Shotput and Hedge, what else do DITs use and can both of those tools do duplicate visibility/deletion?
Reason being my RAID is dying after 8 or 9 years (don't know for sure but it made some awful noises last night) and I realise I've got loads of old stuff I won't need and of the new stuff there may be multiple copies. Want to streamline it before copying over to a new RAID (looking at the OWC Thunderblade 32TB for reasons of thunderbolt 3, small, quiet, passive cooled, not hell to look at etc but am open to something else with similar characteristics https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-thunderblade )