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Data Management and Storage
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Drives, NAS builds, RAID, and backup — where your footage lives and how not to lose it. Related: Workflows
Unraid vs TrueNAS for a Video Editing NAS: What Actually Changed in 2026
So you’re building the editing NAS yourself instead of buying one. An old workstation or a fresh mini-ITX…
Shared Storage for a Small Post House: The Tier Ladder
Shopping for shared storage as a small post house goes like this. You search, and the results split…
SAN vs NAS for Post-Production: What You Actually Need (and When)
Every post house that grows past two editors eventually gets the same advice: a NAS is fine for…
Best Thunderbolt RAID Arrays for Video Editing (DAS Roundup)
Editor storage is a ladder. The bottom rung is the portable SSD in your bag (we sorted the…
Internal NVMe Drives for Video Editing: OS, Media, Cache, and the Export Drive You Don’t Need
Search “best internal SSD for video editing” and count how many results try to sell you a portable…
Samsung T7 vs T7 Shield vs T9 for Editors: Read This Before You Buy
The Samsung T9’s box says 2,000 MB/s. Plug it into a MacBook Pro and you’ll get about 950.…
Samsung 990 Pro vs 9100 Pro for Video Editing: The $10 Question
For two years the advice wrote itself: the Samsung 990 Pro was the smart-money Gen4 drive, and the…
QNAP vs Synology for Video Editing: The Real Differences in 2026
Every editor who outgrows the pile of external drives on their desk ends up at the same fork…
How to Back Up Footage While Traveling: The Solo Offload Workflow
On a real set there’s a person whose entire job is making sure the footage survives the day.…
CFexpress vs SD: Which Cards and Readers You Actually Need
Every memory card guide on the internet is written for the moment you press record. Sustained write speeds,…