First NAS purchase

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Hi!

I'm a video editor and photographer that is looking to purchase my first NAS. I currently use about 16TB of storage, and would like to plan for expanding to accommodate at least 24TB of media. I also plan to use it to store my film library and would like to be able to stream movies from it. My current setup is a mac studio with two 10TB WD MyBook HDD's for backup and a 4TB SSD drive that I keep current projects on for editing.

I've been looking at the QNAP TS 664 and the Synology DS923+ as possible options, with either the Ironwolf Pro or WD Red+ drives. I'm not afraid of spending time learning and setting up a system, but of course user friendliness is a nice bonus. I'm more concerned about reliability and want to make sure it's a system that will serve me in the long run. Any advice between those two systems - or is there another option I should be considering? And what amount of memory should I be considering - should I upgrade to 8G? 16G?

Thanks for any advice!
-kegan

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Yes, DS923+ with NVMe and 10GbE upgrade could be a great 4k editing solution. People often set up NVME SSD for video editing and use HDD RAID for finished projects and archiving. This way overall NAS performance is not affected while collaborating.
TS-664 would have very similar performance. But its built-in transcoding chip would also allow streaming media remotely. Synology only allows streaming in a local network (or videos up to 1080 remotely).
Adding more RAM will not improve things unless you actually use all of it.
The longevity of NAS depends on a model. Maybe overall Synology lasts longer, but Qnap is very close. There are other NAS with 1Year warranties out there that can not be trusted long term.

I hope this helps.