Best QNAP NAS for Video editing 

So glad you asked, I am currently working on this video now. I have two QNAP nas and I will be have the video posted next week. I will make a few videos on the set up. What are you using the NAS for, video editing, or just storage? Thanks for watching. Please share on your FB page to help grow the channel.

hi B.A.T. I dont think i said Boutique that many times, but thanks for watching

is it ProRes, compressed or RAW? in general yes, but I need to know your codec to be sure. Best regards.

Which model of QNAP you r used before?

@@burime13 Last I used TVS-872XT with SSD cache and embedded 10 GB network adapter and it have thunderbolt 3! This NAS model cast about 3K USD. Still slow because it software NAS and have netork delay. Thunderbolt 3 works better actually. And now I use internal hardware controller ADAPTEC SmartRAID 3154 with 4 GB dynamical smart stream cache DDR 4 on RAID5 with x8 SSD 4 TB U.2. Now I have read and write 24 GB per second! And it have fast acess because it inside my computer! No any networks delay! Never come back to NAS. Now I use NAS only for archive storage or some backups. So I am an expert with ant nas or RAIDs for now because I tested many other configurations. Internal device faster and much reliable.

@@oleggritsev thanks)

What did you buy? The software raid is good because you have a dedicated CPU that is stronger than most RAID boxes controllers by a wide margin. Also, this allows you to do good stuff like expanding your storage and storage pools easily without losing your data. This could be critical in a high pace environment. Clearly, if you need the absolute performance a SAN or even a DASD with software raid (nvme based) will run circles around this NAS, starting with the Thunderbolt or FibreChannel connectors. Engineering is always a dance of tradeoffs.

I did not end up using the U.2 Drives and instead went for 4 SSD and set them as Qtier drives to get the fastest performance

@@MediamanStudioServices any info on what qtier means in this case? Thanks.

@@ApolloPS2 not sure your question. I use the SSD as the fast tier and the slower SATA drives as long term storage all in one storage pool. I will be adding NvME drives as read/write cache in a later video. Thanks for watching

thank you very much for your kind words. I will try to keep making helpful content knowing people like you are viewing my videos.

hi David Lawrence, I have both of the NAS you mentioned. If its just you using the NAS and you don't need the extra capacity you can get in the 1288x, then stick with the TS-H973AX. There is also one more benefit with the 1288x, and that is Thunderbolt. If you do a direct connect, you can get speeds up to 20gb. Also the 1288x is not loud, as I have my NAS on the desk beside me. The disk are the loudest part of the NAS and you can here the drive head clicking. But the TS-H973AX is also a good NAS if you only need one 10gb Network connection. Don't get U.2 drives for it. Just set it up with 4 SSD and the 6 SATA. I have more videos coming up on the choosing the File system and setting up the NAS storage pools to get the full bandwidth out of your NAS. Here is a link to the first video in the series. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UJ-VizuE96w.html. thanks for watching

@@MediamanStudioServices Thanks for the fast reply! Yes, it's just me using the device and the plan is 10gbe connectivity. I have thunderbolt but it's dedicated to other devices and my 10gb port is sitting unused. I've been cutting a feature shot in 8K RED using a 16Tb LaCie 2Big RAID which tops out at ~350MB/sec in and out and the TS-H973AX seems like a huge step up in both capacity and bandwidth. I don't need 12 bays of storage and I want to keep the footprint small and power use light. This NAS is the first I've seen that checks all the boxes. Your reviews are exactly what I've been looking for as a content creator. Subscribed and looking forward to your series on setup. Many thanks!

@@dlawrence Hi David, if you get the NAS, Just set it up with the QTS 5.x operating system as I find it faster then the QuTS Hero operating system. QTS is better for video editing workloads. I will try to edit the part 2 and 3 of the series this week and post.

@@MediamanStudioServices Hi Mike, very interesting. The benefits of ZFS is one of the reasons I'm interested in this device (and was considering the 1288X) but if the performance penalty is high, that's important to know. I'd be very interested in comparative benchmarks if possible, and your analysis of the tradeoffs between ZFS benefits vs performance. Many thanks and looking forward to the rest of your series.

@@dlawrence I did an long reply to you but lost the text when browser refreshed. But long story shortened. Use QTS with Tiered Storage set up, as this is what's needed for sequential file read and writes, QuTS uses Cached and that is slower with video files. ZFS is great with random read and writes. Use the 4 SSD as your fast storage and the slower HDD as long term storage. QTS and Qtier handles the locations of the data automatically. So current projects sit on the SSDs and old projects sit on the HDDs. This is how I got 10gb nic of bandwidth with the TS-H973AX. Get 4TB SSDs to hold your entire current projects. You can even use the 3.5" bays to install SSDs if you need more fast drive space.

yes, this is a good system for creating content for 6K

you do not need the TR=Pro and rtx3090 to create good content. Get what your budget allows. A RYZEN 5600 will work but final renders and exports will take longer, but it all depends on your budget. good luck Thanks again! Please share on your FB to help the channel grow.

this NAS should be of for two editors and your workflow, but it is pushing the limit.

thanks for pointing that out. And thanks for watching

thanks for watching.

Please share on your FB to help the channel grow.

Glade you asked, as I am making new series of videos on this NAS topic. Will release a video today, so please watch

Glad it was helpful!

I'm also curious to see how well TS-H973AX handles composited graphic files (.psd, .ai, and 4K footage) on an AfterFx Timeline.

hi Scott, I will do some testing in AE with 4K. I will also be doing a video on how i Set up the NAS and achieved 1000MBps transfer speeds. Stay tuned to the channel for these up coming videos.

As for the drives, both the Exos and Ironwolf are great drives, I used the Exos because they came with the NAS as a lone unit. In the market, large capacity drives are getting hard to find so any NAS rated drive is good.

As soon as possible, I will be doing more videos on this topic. Thanks again! Please share on your FB to help the channel grow.

@@MediamanStudioServices yes sir, thank you for being kind for me, i definitely share your channel with my friends, those are in current situation like me, i sure your channel definitely help me and my learning friends

Hi Wild Child, I am currently editing the second video and will release the video next week. please keep watching. I have some great tips on setting up the NAS. WHat is your use case for a NAS? VIdeo editing?

@@MediamanStudioServices If you could include setting up a SAMBA environment that would be awesome!

Dude no: Just compare a good 8TB nvme vs a 8TB sata 2.5" ssd. Also, they are not 10x faster by a large margin for the application of the video ( video editing). Also one wants to be able to update or replace devices without disassembling your NAS U.2 nvme's are excellent, as practical as SATA, and as performing as M.2 NVME.

@@jaimeduncan6167 Nvme's are 10x faster in any case. Especially handy for realtime video editing, when you need multiple streams of low or no compression video data. There is no subsistute for that matter. Especially in real time applications, letting the cpu and gpu fetch frame data as quick as possible, makes a difference. We are talking 25 to 60 fps, with data fetching processing and display. Let us not argue just for arguing...

@@constantinosschinas4503 you can place there a Nvme with a dedicated bracket. Prove me wrong If not, but I think I saw something like that

thanks for watching and don't forget to share on your FB page. I will do a Part 2 for setting up the NAS and the different OS available once I can get back into my studio. Stay safe.

I also have a new video on the 12 bay version of the same NAS coming soon.

depends on the amount of disks. But anything over 6 disks should be using RAID 6

@@MediamanStudioServices can you use the 4 ssd in the same array as the 5 hdd? If I have 5 20tb hdd and 4 4tb ssd what would my capacity be using raid 6?

@@djphotography8532 if you did the HDD capacity would be limited to the size and capacity of the SSD, and why would you want to do that. The typical set up is to create two RAID sets, one with the HDDs and one with the SSDs and then pool them together. As for the capacity use the QNAP calculator. www.qnap.com/en/selector/raid-selector

Truenas with VDEV in Mirrors 6 drive will do the trick. ZFS is amazing.