and easy, hard drive backup system for video editors
where recommended that you purchase an external SSD to edit from quickly
as well as external hard drives for long term storage of your video files.
A lot of people like that video, but I also received a ton of comments
in the days, weeks and months after I posted it asking Matt
what about network attached storage, a.k.a.
A nas? What about a raid array?
What about a bunch of hard drives all synched up together,
storing files that you can access quickly on your home network?
Thankfully, QNAP a company that specializes in specifically
making network attached storage for video.
Editors reached out and said, Hey, we would love to sponsor a video.
So this video is sponsored by an app.
And in it I want to tell you about the NAS they sent me.
That should work great for you as a video editor,
as well as share with you three reasons why.
If you're a video editor, you should consider purchasing enough to start.
Let's talk about what we're working with here.
This is the new QNAP TVSh874 NAS that is capable of holding up
to eight hard drives, which means that it can hold up to 176
terabytes of data at the time of making this video,
which is kind of nuts, could store more once bigger hard drives come out. Wow.
In this case, though, I did not go with that much space, but
Western Digital was kind enough to send along some hard drives
to use in this device and they sent over four of their four terabyte read it
plus drives that are purpose built for use in a NAS, meaning
they're built to be able to run 24 seven nonstop.
I've pretty much exclusively used Western digital drives for over a decade now
and I find them to be incredibly reliable and they are my go to choice
and recommendation for video editing.
And I will link to these Western digital hard drives as well as this queued up NAS
and everything else they talk about in this video,
in the description down below, back to the NAS.
Now, the reason that I was really happy to work with Qnap is that their Nas’s.
Nas’s that’s the word we're going to use.
Yeah, we'll call them NAS's.
Anyways, they are made to enable you to transfer
and playback video files as quickly as possible.
This NAS in particular comes out of the box with 22.5 gigabit
Ethernet ports for fast transfers over a Cat five to the A cable.
But what was really intriguing to me is that I also had the option to be able
to expand the speed of this NAS by installing a ten gigabit Ethernet card,
which I happily did, as well as investing in some Cat six cable as well.
It was super easy.
Just unscrew the three screws on the back of the NAS slide off the cover,
drop the new ten gig networking card into the slot at the top and screw it.
It took about 2 minutes to upgrade and get a dramatically faster
network connection.
Now, the reason that I wanted to go with a ten gig Ethernet connection is that
I wanted to put the notes out in my studio here
because the last thing that I need is one more thing on the desk in my office.
And I didn't really have the option of putting it under my desk
because I have children and bright and flashing lights draw them
like moths to a flame and I don't want them messing with this thing.
Thankfully, this Nas does come with hard drive locks, which will help keep my kids
from trying to pull out the hard drives if they do manage to find it anyways.
I do want you to know that if you want to have your NAS closer Qnap
does make other storage options
that support Thunderbolt, which are incredibly fast as well.
So that is an option out there for you too.
All in all, I was able to get this Nas up
and running in an afternoon and I now have access to 7.15
terabytes of storage that is not only backed up across
redundant hard drives inside the NAS, but is also accessible incredibly quickly,
which makes playback of 4K video files when editing essentially instantaneous.
So the TV's h874 is an awesome NAS
and I cannot wait to expand it with more drives in the future.
But that said, should you buy one in the rest of this video?
I want to give you three reasons why you should definitely consider
purchasing a NAS if you are a video editor.
Reason number one, a NAS is going to give you access to an expandable pool
of data storage that can grow dramatically larger than a single hard drive.
And if you film weddings or YouTube videos like me,
I'm sure you know how quickly you can run out of space.
This queued up.
Nas is happily sitting out in my studio and while right now it only has four
four terabyte drives,
I have four more spaces for four more drives and in addition
I can swap all of these drives out with even larger hard drives later
whenever I want to upgrade.
In addition, one of the reasons that I was really interested in in us
was that I wanted to easily access some of my most commonly used files.
Whenever I'm editing a YouTube video, I oftentimes find myself needing to access
older rendered videos and effects, or in the case of wedding films or client work.
I also need to access many of the older wedding films that I've made.
You may have clients lose their copy of a film you made for them
and inevitably need to send them a link to the rendered video again.
And instead of needing to dig back through piles of old hard drives
trying to find which one has the correct video on it,
a NAS will give you plenty of room to store all of these older files
for quick, easy and searchable access whenever you need them.
For context, I currently have six hard drives on my desk right now
because I keep finding myself needing to access this older data.
But with this nice set up, my desk is about to be dramatically cleaner
and I even have room for more snacks on it, which it's important.
I love snacks.
Now, reason number two you should consider investing in an office
may be a bit obvious, but I have to say it a NAS is going to give you access
to faster video editing regardless of the size of your video project.
Cameras these days are only moving toward filming in higher resolutions with larger
file sizes and regards of the project you're filming,
the odds are that you're going to need
dramatically more space than you ever did before.
Heck, I can remember when I started filming weddings in good old high
definition mode where even with three cameras, it was really hard
for me to exceed filming 200 gigabytes total on a wedding day.
Man, those were the days.
Because here in the age of 4K and higher resolution, I have multi-day
wedding projects that typically reach 1 to 2 terabytes in size.
And I know the odds are that they will just keep getting larger.
Oh, and if you film raw video with a black magic camera, for example,
I'm sure you're looking at me thinking that only 1 to 2 terabytes,
that's a small project. That's great.
Anyways, in my previous video about editing and storage,
I recommended that you edit from an external SSD, and I still think
that this is a great way of doing things if you have a smaller project.
But as file sizes continue to get larger,
SSDs are still significantly more expensive than traditional spinning
hard drives,
while also being far more limited in the amount of storage that they can offer.
The alternative, though, is a NAS, which is going to give you SSD
like speeds, but with massively more space.
That SSD can only dream of a NAS.
Just make sense if you're commonly editing multiple terabyte
projects that you need to be able to access quickly
with this TBS 8874 in particular, it also supports the installation of two
Nvme SSD for caching, which can make for even faster performance,
and that's an upgrade that I'm definitely looking to make in the future.
Lastly, as far as reasons you should consider getting a NAS,
the last reason is redundancy.
Well, I will be the first to tell you that using a raid array
like you will find in an hour should not be your only backup.
Using a NAS is going to provide you with redundancy
in the event one of your hard drives fails to be cleared.
I still want you to have your critical client files backed up
to other hard drives that are not in your NAS.
But regardless, using a NAS is going to provide you with more redundancy
because all of your files are stored
in multiple places across all of the hard drives in it.
So unlike if you were editing from a single external SSD where
if it fails,
you better hope you have a recent backup of your project and video files,
which has happened to me before with a nice if one of you
the drives fails, all you have to do is swap out the drive
and you'll still have all of your files accessible.
It's a much quicker fix with much less chance of disaster.
Say. Note.
I also love that Qnap gives you so much information about the state
of your hard drives inside this NAS
where you can get things like their temperature
and health and generally just make sure
that everything is running properly and smoothly.
It's really cool and helps keep me from stressing back to redundancy
and backups though
another great feature of this, Nas, is that it offers
a feature called Hybrid Backup Sync, which basically lets you backup
to not only another NAS or other hard drives,
but also two different offsite cloud services,
including ones that I recommend like Backblaze and Dropbox.
I always recommend
storing at least two copies of your video files and projects on site,
as well as one offsite in the cloud and with an AC.
This makes backing up your files even easier,
and that is three reasons why you should definitely consider
purchasing a NAS like this.
Q Knapp, TBS 887 for Love saying that name.
This is one of those tools that you buy, and as soon as you get it set up, you're
going to find yourself thinking day, Why didn't I buy one of these years ago?
As I said earlier, I will link down below to this NAS
as well as the Western Digital read plus hard drives
that I'm using that are made for long term reliability in a NAS.
And in addition
I will also link down below to my free guide called Edit videos Like a pro.
This video is going to show you the steps and techniques that I use in my editing.
That took me years to learn and I know it's going to be extremely helpful to you.
This guide is completely free.
You can download it link down in the video description.
Thanks so much for watching and have a great day.