My 2024 Video Editing Storage Solution - Synology NAS

I have used Sandisk SSD's for my entire career and I'm tired of separating files across so many different hard drives. So here is my solution. I'm not a tech guy and all of this was new for me so I'm open to suggestions!
I learned pretty much everything from a creator names "SpaceRex". He goes into incredible detail about Synology NAS's. Here's his channel:
/ @spacerexwill
Here is a PDF of the exact gear I purchased (with links):
drive.google.com/file/d/1m2BH...

[@brandondavismedia3594]

Update: Now that I've been using it for a month, I feel like I'm getting bottlenecked by the router speed. I also just recently switched to Davinci Resolve as my primary editor and editing straight off the NAS cannot keep up with the speed of Davinci. I now use the NAS as my storage and a portable SSD for my current projects. It is very convenient to have access to all my files but the speed for me has not proven to be able to edit off of (even while using proxies). If anyone has any tips or suggestions, I welcome all advice.

[@ForrestBriggs]

Great video and super-informative! Thanks for posting. I'm in the market for my first NAS. Now that you are using Davinci Resolve and editing with a portable SSD, you are not utilizing the Samsung 4TB internal SSD and NVMe. Correct? Just wanted to clarify and learn from your experience. Thanks Brandon!

[@brandondavismedia3594]

UPDATE to the Update: After posting this comment, I got an email from Synology customer support who helped troubleshoot what could be bottlenecking speed. I want to shout them out rn because I didn't reach out to them, they saw my video, read my comment, and reached out to me. That's some good customer service! They suggested I plug the NAS directly from the thunderbolt adapter into the 10GbE port in the NAS rather than through the switch. I've been testing it out and I believe it has improved the speed! Thank you Christopher for all the help!

[@jng204]

@@brandondavismedia3594 This would be fine if you’re the only user. But what if you have 5 users in the household? Plugging the NAS into the switch seems like the logical scenario for multiusers.

[@BrianDavids]

Thank you for sharing. I am an IT guy and your presentation is great. Glad you made the Synology choice.

[@ulisses4359]

Very nice idea to have 3HDs and 1SSD for "cold" and "hot" storage in the same NAS. Congratz

[@BillyStripes]

This was really helpful. Sometimes the non-tech answers to questions such as “can I plug into a Wi-Fi extender” can be difficult to find. Thank you 😀

[@jesslorenzo]

It is a good initial setup. I went thru a similar process when I first invested in Synology. You will realize later that considering redundancies and backups will increase your investment. 30T plus can be easy to seat up but thinking about what to backup of your data and setting that up will be interesting. Enjoy the journey.

[@TommyDanger5]

I too am in the NAS learning struggle game right now. Getting a 6-Bay so I can setup 3 important drives as a simple RAID 1 backup system. I already have an SSD I'm using for the current projects, and I've also have an older 2-bay (also in a RAID 1) that I want to actually be on the internet for sharing finished projects. The 6 bay is storage I don't need online but want to be backed up all the time because I'm absolutely horrible at remembering to do it myself, and so I'm going to attempt to keep it off the internet and only use it on my LAN. So much to learn for this full project to happen, but I can FEEL it will be awesome! Hope your system is working out for you after this month since you put it out!

[@TonySanchez]

Getting my NAS in a few days, great video man! Congrats!

[@brandondavismedia3594]

Ayyy that's exciting!

[@joegridl]

Haha, i watched TWO videos on synology NAS systems. And you quoted the other one I watched. :D

[@brandondavismedia3594]

hahaha yeah he's great

[@first_gen_collector]

Space Rex is awesome. You should be able to get much faster speeds than reported. 1Gb connection should enable transfers around 110MBps when connected over ethernet, 10Gb should be over 500MBps in real world.

[@carlosdelaincera6709]

Great video

[@ARABICSCHOOLtv]

Thank you so much for this video. It was very helpful my subscribe and my big like from my heart your subscriber, Renat.

[@JuanEditor]

Thanks for the great video. Does Synology allow for others to upload media to your NAS? I've recently started editing from home and the person I'm working with has to drop off hard drives at my place. What would it take for him to be able to upload his footage to my NAS? Would he need a NAS and/or fast upload speeds?

[@brandondavismedia3594]

That's a great question. I haven't yet tried to work with somebody remotely on one NAS, so I would recommend checking out SpaceRex and asking him. he will likely have a good answer! Sorry I can't be of more assistance!

[@JuanEditor]

@@brandondavismedia3594 No worries! Thank you for the channel recommendation!

[@itsthehumor95]

You must have an awesome credit score 😂

[@kadmon78]

fyi, 10gbe = 1000 Megabyte = 1 Gigabyte per second. The 250 Megabyte are the result oft your slow HDDs.