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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
The NAS I Told My Director Friend to Buy for His First Feature
Zac hit me up with a one-line ask: a NAS, about 210 terabytes, for the new film. No…
Black Friday SSD Deals for Video Editors
SSDs are the Black Friday category with the biggest gap between the headline and the truth. The discounts…
OWC SoftRAID 9 Brings RAID 6 to Software RAID on Mac and Windows
OWC released SoftRAID 9 on September 17, 2026, and the headline is RAID 6: for the first time,…
Samsung 990 EVO Plus vs 990 Pro vs WD Black SN850X: Which NVMe for Video Editing
Three Gen4 drives within $13 of each other at 2TB, and one of them no longer has a…
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.…