Hey everyone,
I hope you’re all getting some good flight time in now that the weather is (hopefully) clearing up in most places.
I’ve hit a bit of a wall recently—not physically with the drone (thankfully!), but digitally. I love my Spark, but between that and the other cameras I use, my footage library is absolutely eating my desktop’s storage alive. I’ve been juggling three different external USB hard drives, and honestly, it’s becoming a nightmare to remember which flight is stored on which drive. I had a scare last week where one drive didn't mount immediately, and I almost had a heart attack thinking I lost my vacation footage from last year.
Because of that, I’ve decided to finally bite the bullet and build a dedicated home server (NAS) to dump everything onto a central location with some redundancy. I’m trying to repurpose an old workstation I picked up from a local office liquidation sale to keep costs down.
Here is where I’m getting a little stuck in the weeds, and since this is the off-topic lounge, I figured there might be some fellow tech nerds here.
The machine I picked up is a bit proprietary. Instead of a standard PCIe network card, it uses a specific form factor—a 2-port daughter card for the networking interface. My plan is to try and set up link aggregation (bonding the two ports) so I can theoretically get better transfer speeds when I’m offloading huge video files from my editing rig to the server. Moving 60GB of footage over a standard single wire takes forever, and I’m hoping this little daughter card hack will speed things up without me having to spend hundreds on 10GbE gear.
It’s funny, I spend half my life looking up at the sky flying, and the other half crawling under my desk messing with cables. My wife thinks I’m crazy for building a loud "server" just to store videos of trees and sunsets, but we all know the struggle of data management is real!
So, I’m curious—what is everyone else doing for long-term archiving? Are you guys just buying endless external WD Passports, or have you moved to a NAS/Cloud setup? And if anyone here doubles as an IT guy, do you think messing with this dual-port setup is worth the hassle for a home archive, or should I just stick to the basics?
Fly safe!
I hope you’re all getting some good flight time in now that the weather is (hopefully) clearing up in most places.
I’ve hit a bit of a wall recently—not physically with the drone (thankfully!), but digitally. I love my Spark, but between that and the other cameras I use, my footage library is absolutely eating my desktop’s storage alive. I’ve been juggling three different external USB hard drives, and honestly, it’s becoming a nightmare to remember which flight is stored on which drive. I had a scare last week where one drive didn't mount immediately, and I almost had a heart attack thinking I lost my vacation footage from last year.
Because of that, I’ve decided to finally bite the bullet and build a dedicated home server (NAS) to dump everything onto a central location with some redundancy. I’m trying to repurpose an old workstation I picked up from a local office liquidation sale to keep costs down.
Here is where I’m getting a little stuck in the weeds, and since this is the off-topic lounge, I figured there might be some fellow tech nerds here.
The machine I picked up is a bit proprietary. Instead of a standard PCIe network card, it uses a specific form factor—a 2-port daughter card for the networking interface. My plan is to try and set up link aggregation (bonding the two ports) so I can theoretically get better transfer speeds when I’m offloading huge video files from my editing rig to the server. Moving 60GB of footage over a standard single wire takes forever, and I’m hoping this little daughter card hack will speed things up without me having to spend hundreds on 10GbE gear.
It’s funny, I spend half my life looking up at the sky flying, and the other half crawling under my desk messing with cables. My wife thinks I’m crazy for building a loud "server" just to store videos of trees and sunsets, but we all know the struggle of data management is real!
So, I’m curious—what is everyone else doing for long-term archiving? Are you guys just buying endless external WD Passports, or have you moved to a NAS/Cloud setup? And if anyone here doubles as an IT guy, do you think messing with this dual-port setup is worth the hassle for a home archive, or should I just stick to the basics?
Fly safe!
