One such option - and it’s one that I’m particularly fond of for creative content creators - is the TVS-951X 9-bay NAS system from QNAP. Nowadays, there is no shortage of options for shared network storage and I’ve been lucky enough to be able to test some of them out. Knowing what I know now about NAS devices, I shake my head at our archaic method of archiving data. We ‘shared’ our storage between editors and quite literally picked up a drive off of a shelf and moved it from one office to the next. We simply plugged in an external hard drive and carefully named our projects. At the time, we had no network-attached storage (NAS) option available. We had a pretty precise system for creating archives of our finished projects, but we also saved constantly throughout the process.

My time in video production taught me one very important lesson: back-up projects often.

If you’ve ever read any of my reviews about data storage, you will know this about me. Once upon a time, I worked in video production. A versatile, powerful system for storage.

Backblaze personal qnap