I have a NAS and would still buy a Cloud Store Mini

You would rather send a 2400$ item through snailmail? Only because of settings? When was that great but computer illiterate editor born? If you are editing digital and cant use the internet or usb to transfer files.... Doesnt make sense.
Also on the 8tb it seems the only usb port is labeled as for Ethernet use only? And it already lost an USB port compared to the cheaper one.
And no item with that much lack of security is going on my network, specially with footage on it.

Still trying work this out. Do you think the best way to do remote color grading is still mailing media back and forth to the colorist?

do you need to set the NAS drive as the footage source or are they block storage attached to the editor workstation ?

I want to bypass the 3rd party cloud so it just uploads to my private storage. I can configure and send out to on location shoots and they plug it in and ingest then it uploads direct to the company storage. Or a client that I work with regularly, I can send it to them they can upload to it or I put stuff on it but then it all stays internal and no 3rd party subscriptions or storage limitations.

Maybe I'm a bit thick. I follow your channel and love it - your explanations are usually clear, concise, and on point. But this one has me totally confused. You never really explain WHAT the BlackMagic Cloud thing is all about.
So let me get this straight - you still have to send devices to a remote collaborator, except you're now sending an expensive BM Cloud Pod or Cloud Storage rather than a basic SSD? Somebody still has to use Internet connections to upload (slow) and then download (faster) media files, data files, project files etc anyway? I understand it can be all set up with Dropbox logins and shared folders all ready to go, but I'm still not clear how that is much different from a collaborator just signing into Dropbox to a shared folder and working from there?

When I saw the release presentation, the big thing that came to me was the ingest and proxy generation. As it syncs the proxies first and then slow drips the rest, editors could start right away while waiting for the raw files to follow after. Not counting that you could directly pull a drive from a Blackmagic camera or Atem mini and plug it in to the cloud pod to start syncing.