Noob NAS/DAS question?

Hey man,

I like you're videos, feel like I'm learning a lot and have a quesiton about what the best route to take would be.

I'm a video editor working with a lot of footage - around 25 TB at the moment. I'm on a PC that has Thunderbolt 3 (Not sure how reliable it is at the moment). I've mainly been working with proxies or off of external drives and have been looking at either a NAS or a DAS to edit off of.

With a NAS would I have to upgrade my internet service? or would I be able to directly connect the NAS to my PC? I currently just have a Comcast xFi Gateway with 800Mbps download speed.

Would I be better suited to just get a DAS and call it a day or would a NAS be a better option?

Having a NAS does not mean that you also need a faster Internet. Your local network which is called Ethernet is very likely 1Gbit fast. Everyone connecting to this NAS locally will get this 1Gbit (or WiFi <1GbE) speeds. Anyone connecting from outside this network (Internet) will be limited to your Broadband upload speed.You can connect directly your NAS to your computer via LAN. But if you want to simplify connection and increase the data transfer speeds up to 10Gbit then Qnap Thunderbolt NAS models such as x72XT would be useful. You can connect directly and still allow other people to connect via LAN connection.DAS solution such as Pegasus or Areca would be faster than NAS but there are no sharing capabilities. Also, the speed will be higher than you actually need for editing. You would expect somewhere around 400MB/s requirement for a single 4K editor.I hope this helps.