The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ando_da_pando on 2024-12-24 06:35:44.

Been researching portable drives for my offsite backups (6TB-7TB of essential data, another 4TB-5TB of non-essential). I’m running in circles here, but it seems that since this is a rotating offsite (probably one or two months between) I was thinking it might be easier to put a 3.5" drive dock on the NAS and plug in a bare Ironwolf Pro, backup and slap into a carrying case (as it will be transported on public transit in my backpack) to safeguard.

Anyone do this or thought of this? The case I’m looking at is something like this. Something simple for the dock that I can leave plugged into the NAS all the time like this. Pop in a 14TB drive, backup, put in the case and take it to the office. Pop in the other drive and backup and swap them a month or so later, over and over.

Its on a Synology 920+ if that matters. Thoughts?