Have a DS212+ that I’m growing very impatient with and very much appreciate your informative reasoned thoughts even when understandably speculative. btw: I’m probably going to wait for DSM 7 (DS22x+), not for what it can do when released, which probably would work with a DS218+, but for what it may be able to do […]
Drobo alternative with option to mix different size drives and upgrade HDD capacity in live RAID I currently run 2 Drobo’s 5N’s; Drobo A – Total Capacity of 10.72 TB made up from 5 drives at 3tb each. 1 drive for redundancy Drobo B – Total Capacity of 28.90 TB made up from 5 drives […]
Video Editing NAS 8K Requirements What we do is video edit, primarily RED 8K footage our projects tend to be 1-2TB in size and real-time editing is a must. We currently have several TB2 and TB3 G-Tech Studio XL’s that we use and edit straight from there. I’ve looked at the DS3617xs and Qnap – […]
I’m Looking for some advice before I go purchase my Nas system to run my Plex Pass and Home Surveillance System witch I will buy after. Looking to record all 4 cameras on the nas. I’m looking to buy Synology DS418play at $599.99. I’m going to use 4 Seagate IronWolf Pro nas ST6000NE000 6TB 7200 […]
DAS for RAID-6 or SHR-2 TYPE CONFIG I am wanting to invest in an emulator system, which will require 34-40TB of disk space, and to have a local hard drive letter D: in order to install and maintain the games. Having a NAS from someone like Synology obviously will not work, as it would behave […]
TVS-1282T3 vs TS-883XU for collaborative video editing We are looking for a NAS to work in a 10GB Ethernet environment with 4+ people in parallel collaboratively inside DaVinci Resolve with 4k video projects. Incl. grading and fusion. Ideally, the NAS will be located in its own server room in a server cabinet, where also the […]
We are a small agency wanting to move from a bunch of external drives being passed around the office to an actual shared file server to enable collaborative video workflows. We have 2-3 artists that would be occasionally be cutting 4K footage on the same project at the same time, as well as a few […]
I am looking for reconditions on a DAS storage solution with a least 30TB of storage running raid 5 or 6. I am also looking for a DAS with 2 10GBE ports as we would like to edit the footage that lives on the DAS from 2 edit computers within 10ft of each other. Unfortunately, […]
QNAP TVS-1582TU – Thunderbolt 3 Performance and future-proofing I need a mobile (rack–mounted in skb/peli shock racks is preferred) shared-storage which is able to handle continuous data offloading and handling on tv/film productions (called „ingest“) on location from somewhere about 2-5 sources plus classic features like simultaneous-access from editing machines and say people who review […]
NAS recommendation for Plex DVR and 4K UHD. I’ve been viewing quite a few videos from your youtube channel and I wanted to reach out to get some advice / recommendations on what my next NAS should be. I’d be happy to purchase all equipment from your store moving forward as long as the warranty applies […]
Network storage for video post production. Whe are a small education firm which produce a huge quantity of educational videos and we are looking to implement a network storage for at least 6 iMac workstation working simultaneously on editing and post-processing on adobe premiere pro and after effect. We need fast multi access, large bandwith especially […]
I work for a small video production company and we’re looking to upgrade our storage system soon to coincide with our move to a small private office. We’re looking at a NAS solution and I think I’m getting to grips and have narrowed it down a bit, but I’m still a little unsure on some […]
How would you backup your entire mobile device and not just the pictures and videos? There are a few options for that. The quickest way to do so is by using SanDisk backup flash drive. It cost around £30 (depends on capacity). It will backup 64GB of photos, videos, contacts, calendars and more in […]
I just purchased a Qnap TS-873 AMD and planning to add a Nvidia 1030 graphics card for transcoding into 4k support. I wanted to get your thoughts on this server and if you had any suggests for me. I just purchased it from amazon. I am going to start with 5 hard drives at […]
Do I need caching on a NAS for video editing? Though I’d want to edit straight from the NAS. So I’m wondering if having a single media cache SSD in my PC is enough to not need the cache on the NAS. Hope I’m making sense! Adobe and other editing software have a scratch disk […]
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NVME DAS? Message Body: Hello! I was gifted two 2TB Sabrent Rocket Q NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 SSDs and would like to put them in a storage/DAS of some sort that is Thunderbolt 3. I am using a 2018 Mac Mini. Are there any other products out there than what Netstor makes? Thunderblade ThunderBlade delivers […]
QNAP Transcoding + SAS Drives Selection I love your nascompares.com endeavour. It has been informative in choosing the NAS for my small business. I’ve chosen the QNAP TVS-872XT for a variety of reasons but I have couple of questions I can’t find an answer to… Maybe you can help? 1. Video Transcoding: Can I transcode […]
Best small and hidden cameras for QVR Pro Looked at amazon and they have camera brands that are simply unknown to man, certainly not on the list of QVR pro….What cameras can I work with which are small and undetectable? I am a landlord don’t want tenants to remove camera (which they have done in […]