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Drives, NAS builds, RAID, and backup — where your footage lives and how not to lose it. Related: Workflows
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,…
10GbE for Video Editing: Switches, Adapters, and When 2.5GbE Is Enough
Gigabit Ethernet moves about 110 MB/s on a good day. A single stream of 4K ProRes 422 HQ…
Archiving Projects Without Losing Your Mind
The project wrapped eight months ago. The client paid, the invoice is closed, everyone moved on. And then…
The Best Hard Drives for Your Editing NAS
So you did the responsible thing. You read the NAS guides, you picked a box with enough bays,…
Samsung 990 Pro vs 9100 Pro: The Best SSD for Video Editing
Samsung 990 Pro vs 9100 Pro, plus the 8TB space pick: the internal NVMe drives I'd actually put in an editing machine.
Best NAS/Server for Video Editing (2026)
Finding a server or NAS on a budget is a challenge. In this article, we compare options from QNAP and Synology to figure out the best one for your video editing needs.