3 Reasons Why You NEED A NAS For Video Editing!

Hi Matt, end of year discounts are coming up and I would like to get your opinion on editing equipment recommended by you for this year 2023 please.

This looks great, but wow expensive compaired to Synology. Why would you buy this over Synology?

Thank you for great video. I have a big collection of 4k disks and need a nas for saving my rips and also making my own cloud an accessible for my family to movies and whatever they need. What would you recommend, qnap or synology as far as software and user-friendly? Thanks

It's good to know that the OG New York Rapper is still popular to this day!

Matt ,what about 3 years warranty on western WD?

So when you want to edit your videos, do you need to connect your computer to the internet via Ethernet cable? I can imagine you would be able to access and edit the 4K video effectively, or at all, from a Wi-Fi connection at a coffee shop. Or, can you?

What's the difference between a NAS and simply installing platter drives right inside the pc case, as long as the case has the space it needs?

Matt Johnson has a beautiful Nas(s)

QNAP is horrible to set up and use. Synology is better but nothing beats a Linux NAS

Bought the 6 bay (effectively 3TBs of RAID) with throughput over Thunderbolt as if SSD was internal to my MacBook Pro (2018) but now I’m starting a new project that is going to require 8TBs to 12TBs of RED 6K so that’s gonna be another $2K plus $150 per SSD and another DAS to backup the RAID… for - when - a lose a drive… or two

What a waste of time this video is. All 3 reasons can simply be achieved with other cheaper solutions. You did not cover the main reason that someone would like to invest in NAS and that is sharing capabilities. I particularly would like to know what is the speed transfer, if I would like to transfer 250GB RAW file wedding from UK to my editor in America. I do know it also depends on internet speed, but you can test with whatever you have and that would be more valuable info for me. All your talking sounds like one big advert and it's sad :(

Which raid did you use, 10?

Hi I always enjoy your channel. Only one question, backblaze will not cheap any more if you use NAS. You must go to B2 option, Am I right?

No you don't need that at all. I didn't know you did infomercial to.

Great video as I have been considering getting one of these but I have a ton of questions lol. For very specific questions, what contact at QNAP would you recommend I reach out to as I would like to use this to store all my unreal engine projects that I can run from.

Looking at this solution as I'm moving from a solo editors to having my first employee start soon. I need a way to share TB's of data and assets with each other. Thinking this is a good solution

Is it better to edit internally on MacBook Pro SSD compared to something like Pegasus3 R4 or NAS. Maybe internal SSD is more optimised and why?

Snacks are 100% important

But like.... $2500 :(

Hey Matt, thanks for sharing all your knowledge and information about film making and video work. I always seem to come back to your videos becuase I trust your work. Keep it up and again, thank you.

Pronounced "Nazz" (like "Razz", from someone who has been using them for decades). I rarely ever edit off a NAS...edit locally off internal or external SSD, then sync files back to your NAS (I script my backups, e.g. w/ rsync, but there are backup apps out there). For faster over-the-wire throughput, look for HW that supports link aggregation/bonding. Of course your routers must support it, as well. I've used Synology for ages, but there are many decent NAS vendors out there. For the bold, you can usually configure your NAS to act as a 'cloud', directly accessible from anywhere in the world, e.g., via OpenVPN, but if you're not IT-savvy, best to use the vendor's 'cloud' mirroring services, otherwise you might inadvertently open up your NAS to the world.

WTF this NAS is over $3.5k crazy for normal home use...

Any thoughts on QNAP over Synology?

Why a NAS vs a regular RAID? All the reasons you gave can apply to a normal RAID drive. Probably the sponsorship lol

Can you calirify on the "SSD like speeds" on the NAS? that doesn't make much sense to my knowledge. Even with a 10GB ethernet, you still using slow HDDs so the speed will be at most the same as that of any HDD

i prefer cloud..its cheaper less noice, safer and ez to access. Unless I dont keep the secret of atlantis on that cloud..

I am deleting files from my NAS to increase space but I did not see any change....what am I doing wrong?

I assume you have a 10 gig switch and 10 gig card in your computer?

Hey Matt, have you lost weight? Great video I've just noticed you are looking great!

Dude I love your beard! Keep it going!

Right in the knick of time, I’m about to run out of storage on my RAID 5 112TB Thunderbay 8 and I’m strongly considering getting a NAS.

That's NAS...that's very NAS..

I had some bad experiences using Western Digital product. Three of my 2 tb ext. harddrives, broken. Lost all the data. Never had problems with Samsung so far.

Dont open your qnap to online cloud.. I wouldnt recommend it. We got our QNAP nas hit with malware ransomware and it encrypted some of our files a while back. Dont do it Matt, just keep it off line.

Love my NAS with my editing. Highly recommend-72 TB and still growing. You're the best Matt.

Definitely a must buy. The NAS is more handy than DAS cause you can set it up so that you can share for example a customer file while you are travelling.. I myself am going to build NAS from my old computer. Old hardware into use instead of waste 🤗

I have really been looking hard lately at a NAS. Far less expensive than tons of external drives with faster access. I really am torn between QNAP and Synology. Great teaser video.

QNAP is vulnerable to ransomware...My NAS (TS 251+) was encrypted with a ransomware called deadbolt asking for a large bitcoin deposit to release the key. QNAP is not my preferred method anymore. Keep that in mind !

Something you did not cover Matt is .... what you do when you have to add capacity. Does QNAP have software that allows you to just add larger hard drives over time, and it will reconfigure like Synology? For me, that's a deal-breaker as every time I get a hard drive set up and sorted out, I quickly realise that I'm running out of space in no time. I'm at 27TB, and this year I think I will get close to 40TB. Real shame Drobo has gone under as that was the perfect solution for a DAS that you back up to Backblaze for no extra cost (NAS normally cost more to back up to cloud services) Great video as ever.

A little off topic because I'm not a film maker but I'm trying to figure out whether I really need a NAS for my home theater. I'm thinking maybe a PC with several hard disc connected via USB would work just fine to stream 4K video for the home theater. Would there really be an advantage to using a NAS for this application? Thanks, mk.

Very informative video however I have never heard "NAS" pronounced the way you pronounced it throughout the video.

Thank you. Great info. Cheers. 😀

Surely it is pronounced NaS as in NASA?

What do you do for health insurance? I might be making the switch over to full time this year, and that’s something that I have to think about

Great video

Great video Matt. What are the read and write speeds on your NAS? Here's what I do. I store all my data on the NAS, then download what I need to a Samsung X5 Portable SSD. It has read and write speeds of 2,800MB/s and 2,300MB/s respectively, which really helps during editing and exporting. Once done, I upload any of the newly created files and video output back to the NAS. I've tried editing off my NAS. It's okay but nothing like that X5 SSD! 👍 Oh and we say NAS like "Jazz"! It's potato, potahto, you know! But you make it sound much more "fancier". Hehe! 😏

Love having a NAS but really got burned by QNAP when they knowingly sold machines with a faulty chip. They wouldn't do anything for their customers that this affected. I recommend a better company.