We are a team of creatives looking to solve our growing storage issues as I’m sure most businesses discover.
The majority of our work is video and now more often than not we filming in 4K.
On average a job/project will consume roughly 200GB in its entirety which includes the raw footage, proxies, revision exports, music, project files & final version outputs.
We are mainly using Adobe Creative Cloud (Premiere Pro CC) for our video editing. With that said, we also working with DaVinci Resolve.
From a storage perspective, we have two main 5.1 Mac Pro edit machines with M2 boot drives, a secondary SSD, and 2 x 4TB drives in Raid 0 Configuration.
In addition we have a Business Dropbox account where we keep our working files and final outputs shared to clients.
Our office is a complete Mac environment.
What are we hoping to achieve?
We are thinking of getting an 8-bay NAS (either Synology or QNAP - what are the main differences?).
We’re wanting to come back from a shoot and backup our footage from SD cards straight onto our NAS.
Our understanding is that this will enable us to work of any local machine to access our files and in theory work directly off the NAS. Is this possible? Are there speed limitations?
Does anyone have recommendations in this space? We think it’s better to get an 8-bay NAS over a smaller one to avoid the need to upgrade again in the immediate future.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
The majority of our work is video and now more often than not we filming in 4K.
On average a job/project will consume roughly 200GB in its entirety which includes the raw footage, proxies, revision exports, music, project files & final version outputs.
We are mainly using Adobe Creative Cloud (Premiere Pro CC) for our video editing. With that said, we also working with DaVinci Resolve.
From a storage perspective, we have two main 5.1 Mac Pro edit machines with M2 boot drives, a secondary SSD, and 2 x 4TB drives in Raid 0 Configuration.
In addition we have a Business Dropbox account where we keep our working files and final outputs shared to clients.
Our office is a complete Mac environment.
What are we hoping to achieve?
We are thinking of getting an 8-bay NAS (either Synology or QNAP - what are the main differences?).
We’re wanting to come back from a shoot and backup our footage from SD cards straight onto our NAS.
Our understanding is that this will enable us to work of any local machine to access our files and in theory work directly off the NAS. Is this possible? Are there speed limitations?
Does anyone have recommendations in this space? We think it’s better to get an 8-bay NAS over a smaller one to avoid the need to upgrade again in the immediate future.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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