TVS-h874

$350 a month - ho ho ho ! Lucid Link, Suite Studios, and Shade.inc are all fantastic and are used for remote editing. You upload your footage to them, and it's streamed out to your remote editors. You pay per month, per terabyte, per users. Iconik is an asset management software - not a remote editi

any 8 bay or 12 bay NAS will give you 1000 MB/sec over 10G ethernet to the client computers. I will describe the NAS in a moment. You need a 10G switch. Your four Mac Studio 10G ethernet ports get plugged into the 10G switch, and your NAS 10G port gets plugged into the 10G switch. A QNAP QSW-M3216R-

moral of the story - you will either spend the money - or you will spend the money. This happens to everyone. You start with a little crappy QNAP, and then slowly move to a better and better QNAP (TVS-h874) - but it's still not big enough. And today, in May 2026, you are going to spend a LOT of mone

I will answer in detail later today. You need a QNAP TVS-h874 with 2 internal M.2 drives to run the QuTS operating system, eight matching 7200 RPM SATA drives, and the internal QXG-10G2T 10G card. Your computers need 10G ethernet adapters or NIC cards (modern Macs can be ordered with 10G ports) - ex

building a QNAP requires some knowledge. You are not plugging in a thunderbolt device like on a Mac, and it just mounts on your desktop (Which is what most photographers want with their MacBook Pro's). There is no mini SAS connection in any of the professional QNAP systems - it's all done over a net

that is correct. I personally prefer QNAP. A QNAP TVS-h874 will come with 32 Gig of RAM. It costs $2199. You need a 10G card - the QNAP QXG-10G1T is $139. You need two internal M.2 NVMe drives (500 gig Samsung EVO 980) to run the QuTS (ZFS) operating system - these are $79 each. And now if you only

if you feel that "they are going to come out with a new model in January 2026 - so I am going to wait" - well, if in fact they do that - then I assure you that they will release a NEWER model in January 2028 - so you will get screwed anyway. Technology always becomes outdated. There is no way to "fu

you don't edit h.264 - you transcode this to a normal editing codec using things like Adobe Media Encoder, EditReady, etc. Resolve will also let you transcode h.264 - or you get stuttering playback. If you are never going to have 2 or more users, you can get away with a 6 drive NAS, but if you are g

the TVS-h874 and the TVS-h674 both have two internal M.2 NVMe slots (free). Caching does NOTHING for professional video editing with AVID Media Composer, Apple FCP X, Davinci Resolve or Adobe Premiere. So no - I do not mean the QM2-2P10G1TB You want a single port 10G card for $139 for either of thes

Bob, Thanks! I enjoy your posts a lot. I just read a very long thread from you on the QNAP board. Sorry I conflated my transcoding comments. That is strictly for viewing 4k MP4 or HD videos usually on the local LAN via a media player or perhaps offsite via plex. If on local LAN using a media player