Das Vs External Hard Drive

Excellent External hard drive.

I use it as an external hard drive for photos.

Protects my WD external hard drive.

This is my third external hard drive, work great.

This external hard drive houses all my photos.

Fast external hard drive. Works well.

Bought to use on an internal hard drive, to make it and external hard drive.

I am a photographer and the hard drive on my PC was getting full so I needed to start storing photos on a new hard drive. I looked around for a DAS system, but had considered going with a NAS system. Since I work flow is solo and I do really work remotely I choose to go with a DAS system. I did a lot of research and decided on the QNAP TR-004 because I can use it as a DAS and connect it directly to my PC. Additionally I can run it as a RAID for redundancy. I then use portable hard drives for backing up my photos. The main reason I went with the TR-004 is the fact that I can add more hard drives and hot swap to larger hard drives as my needs grow going forward. Currently I just run 2 x 4TB hard drives but can add up to two more hard drives or more to larger capacity hard drives. I like this customization as opposed to going with something like the LaCie 2big. This is relatively easy to setup, and is my first time using such a product. I would say the only issue I had was figuring out how to properly format the hard drives once I installed them into the TR-004. However, it only took about 5-10 min. for me to figure it out.

This Hard Drive Case is very sturdy and is a great external protector for your hard drive. Great buy!

Using to transport may external hard drive when I travel.