Best video editing setup for graduates

Looking for NAS storage for my son who is a videographer. He uses a iMAC (Sep’15) with Thunderbolt2, which will probably be upgraded later in 2019. Along with a MacBook (Dec’16) Thunderbolt 3.

He is in final year at University and is specialising in the creation and editing of music videos. He currently has 10TB of data and expects to have 20TB by end of year. Then he graduates and will need even more!

Have been looking at QNAP TVS-472XT 4 Bay with 3 x Toshiba 14TB Drives and a 4TB SSD
But concerned QNAP only has a Pentium 2-core processor rather than i9 or Xeon.

Can you recommend alternatives we should look at or am I worrying about processor needlessly?

We also will want to link to a cloud based backup solution.

You are a great dad! You will definitely need 72XT series. Processor here is not a deal breaker. It is more drive limitation. With three drives in a RAID5 you will have 20TB but it will slightly difficult to expand later. I would suggest filling it with 4 HDD or look ate 672xt filled with 4 drives. Either way do get two NVMe SSD they work at incredible speeds. He can then do editing on NVMe media and store raw footage as well as distribute finished projects from HDD volume. Or even set up tiered storage system which will move most often accessed data to NVMe SSD.
I hope this helps.

 

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