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  • I wouldn’t use a spinning drive for editing anything, not would I recommend a solution involving only a single drive without redundancy.

    The big NAS servers I’ve built for work contain a mix of Toshiba N300 and Seagate Ironwolf NAS drives (always best to mix manufacturers and batches as part of a redundant array in case you end up with multiple failures from a single bad batch). Not had one drive failure in 3 years across 64 drives.

    Avoid any drives which use SMR.

  • So edit on a SSD, how would that work? I have an external drive to back up my photos. Granted, not the most secure approach, but I'm not at the stage to making a home server (it's intimidating for me to contemplate)

  • What’s in your machine currently? If you can fit a decent ~2TB NVME SSD, you’d use this for ingesting and editing (I’m assuming you mean video editing as well as photos), then dump the output onto slower, larger cold storage (HDD) when you begin to run out of space.

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