Hi,
I am looking at building/buying a NAS that I can edit videos directly from the NAS, from my research I need a 10GbE, I've looked at TerraMaster F4-424 but reports say it's slow.
Also seen this: https://www.centrecom.com.au/asustor-flashstor-12-pro-fs6712…
At this point I am looking at my options, with a budget of $2K - any suggestions highly appreciated, as I am terrible when it comes to the software side.
"from my research I need a 10GbE".
Yeah - but nah.
Suggest you do some more research.
Better to invest in more expensive drives to put in that NAS then!
at 10GbE you are better off building your own
LOL far fastest, easier and cheaper to equip a PC with a couple 16TB drives and a 1TB NVME proxy just work off those drives for video edits …
HDD > proxy > 2nd HDD is the fastest and most effective workflow … when 16TB full, just swap them out from the PC …
What size videos (in terms of resolution eg 4k, and GB of data). What's your total storage needs for video?
If you're thinking about a terramaster or asustor, you're asking the wrong question if you're planning on doing video editing at 10GBe.
You will need NVME drives in the NAS, which is going far outweigh the costs of whatever NAS you choose. Mechanical drives in RAID configuration aren't going to be able to keep up with 10 GBe. If your video files are really large, even a NVME cache may not be enough.
Need more information on your actual use to be able to give any meaningful advice.
Look up TrueNAS builds. You can build it on any PC you like, you just need to add the hard drives of whatever sort suits, and have a network card capable of 10GbE. Pretty lightweight, and you just create SMB shares so all your video editing is done across shares. Don't see why it wouldn't work.
You upload and store to the NAS why would you want to edit on the NAS?
why would you want to edit on the NAS?
Multiple users?
I've been looking at that Asustor SSD NAS as well. One this is that it the SSD's will be running on PCIe 3x1, which has a max bandwidth of 985mb/s. That'll probably give around 800mb/s in real performance.
It didn't seem to be worth all the cost unless I did some thinking errors along the way.
What I'm leaning towards is getting an 8TB SN850x SSD (~$1200), throwing it in an Acasis Thunderbolt 5 case ($310), and get speeds of around 6000mb/s from direct access. I'll then (and it is this part I'm not sure about:) get a cheap HDD NAS and sync the entire SSD with it for network access as well as backup. Happy to hear thoughts on this too!
I have a rack mount Synology build with full SSD setup, I think if you are editing remotely, no matter what you spend, the experience wouldn't be as good as editing locally.
Instead of spending tons, I actually suggest you try change your work process a bit.
Editing locally and back up in NAS.
NAS is slow for non enterprise systems (aka home).