Hey there! I’m looking at building a sensible storage solution for myself as Videographer. This would be archive storage so to speak, meaning I would not often need to access the footage regularly, just move footage and edit files onto it for hoarding and Safe keeping just in case! At the moment I’m looking at:

Asustor Nimbustor 4 AS5304T 4 Bay NAS

To start with I would add 2x WD Red Pro 8TB Drives in RAID 1 to give me 8TB usable. I believe this I’d easy to in the asustor software?

Later down the line I’d then look to add the other 2 drives for more capacity.

Is this a logical solution? Do you have recommendations? Is this user-friendly for a first NAS?

Thanks!

  • galacticbackhoe@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    edit files onto it

    You might want to clarify what this means, because it is confusing. Are you going to edit files on the NAS or not?

    I don’t have any personal experience with asustor. Seems decently-regarded, and probably is a good 1st NAS in terms of user-friendliness.

    They support 2.5gbps speeds, so you may want to consider making sure whatever you edit on can do 2.5gbps (and your switch) as well to take advantage.

  • InMooseWeTrust@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The problem with recording videos is you will accumulate data significantly faster than you will be able to edit/render them.

    Your hoard size is 100% guaranteed to be a bigger problem than how good of a NAS setup you have. If you don’t want to spend money on a really fast NAS, you can just load whatever files you’re working on to your SSD and delete the copies after you finish rendering.

    I delete most of my raw video files after rendering because, again, the size of my data is unaffordable.