What is your storage setup?

There are a lot of good YouTube videos with different opinions, Ideas, and alternatives. I personally have not used a NAS but would love to but I live in South America and the prices are WAY to high. I edit everything on SSD's and then do double back ups to 2 different standard hard drives. Not the best solution but the cheapest for sure.
I just saw a video on YouTube about TAPE back ups where the initial machine is like 5500.00$ US but the tape cassettes are vert very cheap, like 60.00 for a 12TB tape drive..
this guys does great reviews. I follow him on YouTube and in this videos he mentions the tape drive...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auFyXDoYVso
He actually does not say how fast the back ups are but sounds pretty cool, although also out of my price range.
I personally would do some type of NAS with internal SSD's and with a network/ethernet connection but SSD's are also quite expensive but much less than they use to be..

 

I have 5 different drives in my tower. One SSD for my OS, one SSD for my scratch and working drive, and the rest for storage (about 14TB of bulk storage). I also have an external 4-bay drive enclosure with another 24TB of storage. I have been doing this for a while, so I need a lot of storage space lolol

 

You are going to be better off editing from an internal drive than an externally connected one. Use the NAS for storage, but keep your working files on a fast internal drive.

 

Dang, That is a lot of storage. I am jealous. I have boxes and boxes of hard drives in my basement but never got around to finding a good budget way of backing them all up.
Yes I am a professional film maker and know internal is better which I use when editing but there are many post production houses that work fine off ethernet connected drives apparently but maybe with proxies.
I have a Mac Studio Max M2 2 tb SSD and have about 5 external SSDs I edit off of all day no problems at all, but that is also bc my Studio MAX M2 is a Jet and rips through video footage no problem. I do not even use proxies anymore.
Where I live there are not really any good options for NAS and if I import them it is was too expensive for me at the moment. But there are some really good options.
I store to externals HD's and if I really need to edit old projects I copy them back to SSD's if needed.
Good Luck
PS I imagine you either have an old Intel Mac Tower or PC since you say you have a tower. But My Studio MAX M2 is hands down the fastest and best computer I have ever used or had in 30 years.

 

Thanks for sharing your workflow! What standard hard drives do you use for backing up?

Damn, that tape drive. Learned something new! Great for filmmakers who wanna archive stuff.

"I personally would do some type of NAS with internal SSD's". And what industry are you in? Filmmaker or photographer? (edit: ah I read in the comments you're a filmmaker, check)

 

Is the external 4-bay drive enclosure a backup of your mac (SSD working drive + 14 TB bulk storage)? Or do you actively work from your NAS?

 

It's mainly long term storage, so while I do not actively work off of those drives for current jobs, they do contain files that I access fairly often. I have additional backup drives (plus a full cloud backup), so this NAS is not a redundant backup.