10 hours ago
Hi there, and thanks for the message. With immersive Blackmagic footage the first thing to decide is whether you actually need shared editing, or if you are only working from a single machine at a time. If there is no collaboration, the simplest and fastest option is still a Thunderbolt DAS on your M3 Ultra for the active project, then move the finished work onto a large NAS for long term storage. That gives you full speed without the cost of a high end shared storage system.
If you do need shared access, a NAS can handle this very well by using separate tiers. Live edits sit on an SSD pool for speed, and finished material is shifted to the HDD pool for capacity. NVMe caching can also lift the performance of the HDD pool, so you do not need to fill the entire system with SSDs to keep it responsive.
QNAP and Synology both offer units that can scale into the hundreds of terabytes, and you can grow them with expansion shelves as needed, but the level you choose really depends on how many editors need to work at the same time. If it is one or two people, you may not need an extreme all flash setup.
If you do need shared access, a NAS can handle this very well by using separate tiers. Live edits sit on an SSD pool for speed, and finished material is shifted to the HDD pool for capacity. NVMe caching can also lift the performance of the HDD pool, so you do not need to fill the entire system with SSDs to keep it responsive.
QNAP and Synology both offer units that can scale into the hundreds of terabytes, and you can grow them with expansion shelves as needed, but the level you choose really depends on how many editors need to work at the same time. If it is one or two people, you may not need an extreme all flash setup.