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"I find myself needing a central storage solution disconnected from my main workstation."

• walrus01 4y ago
  there would still be such in what I described, just that it would have a much higher capacity composed of 16-18TB each spinning disks.
  • geerlingguy 4y ago
    In this case the storage is used directly for the editing, though. I am able to close a project on one computer, hop over to another and within seconds start editing at full speed (without requiring proxy footage). HDDs can't provide the latency that I need, unless I was running a dozen or two to overcome the horrible seek speeds (or had at least double the RAM so the entire project would be cached in RAM).
    • derefr 4y ago
      What's wrong with proxy footage, though? Especially if the NAS was hyperconverged-in-the-small (i.e. had the spare compute to render out proxy footage for uploaded files in the background.)
      • geerlingguy 4y ago
        Nothing really, but it's just one extra layer of inconvenience. If you can edit full res, it's nice to be able to (especially for color grading and cropping purposes).