Store a lot of immersive video data and edit from it

[Enquiries]

Hi,

We are currenty using a 1821+ and 10gbe, but immersive video from the new Blackmagic is massive.. so we would like to go way bigger, and have a Petabite or 500to NAS to store the footage and work from it.

Which is the fatest way to do so ? Do you recommend having a TB5 large disk to work from it, and then store in the NAS ? Or can we get good enough speed from a very good NAS ?

Some of my friend are using rackmounted Qnap 24 bays ssd for it, with 25gbe (or more?) connnexion.

Let me know what can we do please.

Thanks a lot.

(we are using M3 ultra machines)

[ed]

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.