Use NAS/ Gigabit Enet drive for video?

[Joey Cupcakes]

Helping someone set up a high-capacity, fast, reliable expandable video editing system where there will occasionally be more than one user accessing. I'm thinking RAID-5 (with 4 3 or 4 TB drives) using NAS on Gigabit Ethernet. That will get us 9-12 GB right off the bat with redundancy and we can add more of the same later. It also makes use of his currently available technology, i.e. a Mac Pro 4,1 w/ 32GB RAM running Mavericks with no card slots available.

Should this type of system perform well for video editing using Final Cut X?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,\.

[jdc]

Video editing? From that external drive? no way.

He needs to make a slot available for USB 3 or eSATA.

[Joey Cupcakes]

We do have USB3 available but eSATA would not be expandable.

Still, I have heard of video systems using servers or network drives. Are those only over fibre?

[colonel panic]

jdc wrote:
Video editing? From that external drive? no way.

He needs to make a slot available for USB 3 or eSATA.

With a system like the Avid Isis (unfortunate name) you can edit from a network drive. In fact multiple editors can access the same assets and capture media to the same volume simultaneously, without copying.

[The Grim Ninja]

Keep in mind that most NAS devices have horrible speed. You can't get a low end device and expect it to work.


I don't know how Final Cut behaves with networked storage. Have you researched this, or do you have another system you can test with? Make a shared volume, put some files on it, and see what happens.