CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@nileane BTW I am in the process of replacing my 3.5" RAID 5 Synology NAS.

New NAS will be a Raspberry Pi 4, with one 5TB drive for backup and another 2TB 2.5" drive for time-maschine. Cheaper, energy efficient, and backup is physically separated (bedroom vs. cellar).

Other 5 TB drive I will connect to my laptop now and then (especially if I work with larger video files). I will then likely use CarbonCopyCloner to automatically sync any files from that drive to the one attached to the NAS.

@nileane I just bought myself two 5TB 2.5" disks. Their power consumption is significantly lower than 3.5", so they run fine with just USB power. Obviously not as fast as a bigger HDD, let alone SSD, but for backup imho that isn't a major concern.