I’m a photographer with about 20-24TB so far. Every year I add 5-6TB.
I currently have a full 16TB 4bay Pegasus in RAID 5 that is backed up to a 16TB OWC Mercury and Backblaze. I also have another 12TB Mercury for cold storage that’s running low. The Mercurys are USB 3 and sloooow.
I’m thinking about getting the 32 or 40TB thunderbolt Gemini to consolidate everything and speed things up. The extra ports are helpful too.
It would back up the RAID via CCC and allow for extra storage. The Mercurys would both be cold storage. Of course everything would be backed up to Backblaze.
Now here’s the dumb questions. If I put the 32TB Gemini in Independent mode, would it mount 2 16TB drives separately on my Mac screen? Or one drive that is 32TB? Can I daisy chain the Pegasus to the Gemini or is that a bad idea?
Any other suggestions to get more space and speed? I edit on an SSD so that’s not an issue.