Case: – Project types and workflow – Professional film and TV productions, weekly location shooting for documentary series, HD/4K editing, VFX compositing, graphics and grading, data collaboration with external providers, customer screenings and file distribution for publishing. – Two offices in separate towns – Office 1: Medium sized office with 3 separate rooms for editing. […]
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 […]
I have been watching many of your videos on NASCompares channel and SPAN channel and they are really helpful, thanks! I have learned so much from your content already. I’m now trying to choose which Synology NAS to purchase for heavy duty 4K video editing. I run a small business (YouTube channel Bounce Patrol Kids). […]
Best 10GBE or 1 GBE Wifi Router I was wondering what the best router/network set is available for a Home Network? Video editing, Uncompressed Video streaming and Gaming are the three highest bandwidth activities I do. For Wifi, I don’t think I need a MESH router because my house is smaller and the bulk of […]
MAC Based/Video Editors on Adobe Premiere We have 4 mac’s that we run Adobe Premiere on and we are looking for a simple NAS solution. We are on a corporate network so the iMac’s (2) would need Thunderbolt 3 connectivity somehow. I assume there is a converter from 10gb ethernet to T3? The other 2 […]
Best raid setup for video editing. Starting out with 3 14tb internal drives on a store-made machine with an i9 processor and 64gb of ram; it was setup as raid 5 but I’m hearing that the likelihood of a second drive failing while you’re recovering from a first drive failing makes it likely the whole […]
I am a professional photographer also working with video. I wanted to purchase my first NAS and got a bit excited and ordered maybe to quick a DS918+. Looks like an amazing unit enough bays, expandable etc. However, after looking closer at the specs, I realized that I couldn’t upgrade to a 10 gbe. Now, […]
I’m helping my wife get set up with a NAS for her established photography business. I’m a software developer myself, and although data management isn’t my strongest area I feel that I can manage some of the more involved setups, if there’s reason to go with one. I’m trying to get an idea from her […]
Hallo. I am looking for a NAS that allow me to store lightroom CC photos (from mbook pro mid 2010 which is OK with lightroom cc) (I have 20-30mb raw files when I shoot) plus the possibility to use drag and drop for iOS files app in ipad so I can easily email attachment from […]
I’m a freelance filmmaker and my current set up is currently all over the place. I work off an external SSD drive, then manually back that up to another external hard drive. I work from a Windows laptop, but still have my very old Mac Pro, which as about 4TB of old back ups. I […]
I am a 3D animator and video editor and have 2 Projects with a few questions I would like some advice on. Projects A (Video Speed) I have a 1618+ RAID 5 with 4 X WD Pro 10TB HHD’s, this leaves 2 slots available for some SSD caching. I work alone but when rendering an […]
I’m looking for a NAS to keep and edit my work on, as well as to sync images between computers on different locations. I’m currently a photography student so my budget isn’t what it should be. I currently have my files on a 4TB drive in my computer tower, but it’s filling up fast. I’d […]
I just ordered a DROBO solution from Amazon… but now thinking that I made a mistake and need to switch it over to a Synology NAS… so that I can have access to my information via the internet on my laptop. My major usage is for Photography and Video work I do for Family… putting […]
NAS for video editing. We have a small video team consisting of 3-4 people working mainly on PC/Adobe Premiere pro but we also have the occasional freelancer working on mac. We need a NAS that we can work from instead of having workfiles and footage files locally and moving them around. We mainly do short productions […]
I currently use an iMac and MacBook Pro with a LaCie 2Big 3tb mirrored drive as my primary storage to edit and manage photos for my photography business via Lightroom and Photoshop. I need to expand storage and I’ve become a bit tossed up between a Synology NAS, Drobo or QNAP with Thunderbolt. What would […]
I was trying to decide on which QNAP NAS to buy. I run a small boutique branding agency. We have about 7 or 8 videos being shot each month along with about 1000+ photos per month. Right now I’ve been running off individual drives but everything is filling up quickly. I was considering the following […]
I have been reading and reading, but am still unable to choose a NAS for my use. I am doing photography and some limited video editing (HD and 4K) and have quite a big library of files. Mostly RAW files and Video recordings that take up space. I see that I should get a NAS […]
We’re looking to upgrade an older 20TB Fiber channel XSAN environment: – Promise Vtrack – 2 Qlogic SANbox 5200 Fiber Channel switches – 2 MDC servers (Mac minis with Promise SanLink2 to Fiber SPF) – 4 iMac Clients with Promise SanLink2 to Fiber SPF) – macOS 10.11 running on MDCs and clients – Most content […]
Considering a Synology DS918+ to store video files that will be edited. Probably need about 10TB total storage. Will probably use RAID 5 Expect 4 to 5 files open for editing. What is recommended RAM for this application? Also, who do you like for cloud backup? It these files will be stored on the NAS […]
I have the need to edit 4k video from a Macbook pro with limited internal storage, the first solution would be to buy a high-speed interface DAS and edit the files directly on that disk. However, when I’m done with the video files and photos, I want to access them from the web in a […]