Nas with Avid Thanks for your insights here and I will buy through your site, providing I can find the right NAS system. I have an AVID system (2020 HP Zbook Laptop PC but also an older version running on an old 2009 MAC ) and I want to use HD only footage, about 20TB […]

I am running a windows based Adobe Premiere / Adobe After Effects system editing documentaries and television shows. Six months ago the shows were sufficiently spaced out that I could run them all on the desktop machine (running 3 x 4TB SSDs and a 1TB m.2 for the software). Then I would offload each series […]

NAS for Lightroom photo editing Hi, love the videos, very helpful. I edit files in Ligthroom on an Mac and need a lot of robust storage. My current solution using USB drives is not working. My priority is not to have lag opening large RAW files to edit with lightroom or browsing large file structures. […]

Scalable NAS for video editing I manage a small video editing/distribution company and am looking for budget conscious solutions for a scaleable NAS solution starting with 800TB. We need to be able to have the NAS fast enough to for multiple editors (up to 5) to work off the NAS in Premiere, and encode multiple […]

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 […]

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 – […]

My name is Manuel, Post Production Supervisor  Berlin, Germany. We also have an office in Düsseldorf which is part of the reason I am sending you this message. First of all, I would like to purchase a fast storage solution that every machine on our network in Berlin can connect to and work from (currently […]

I run a small outfit with some friends and we currently need a NAS/ DAS system that is able to support a total of 8 users. 6 of those users are basic usage with file sharing / transferring, while the other two are editors. Both systems will be running AVID MEDIA COMPOSER and Auto Desk […]

I just purchased a new NAS TVS-872XT for our graphic design studio (15 employees). The specs of the box are below. I was wondering if you could help walk through the initial setup of RAID / Snapshots / SSD over-provisioning / Volume / QTier / etc. I would like to avoid setting up the box […]