Thank you for that! I did look into the idea of a DAS, if we did what you suggest of attaching the das to an old Mac effectively making it into a NAS that would be handy down the road. Search "multi bay USB drive enclosure" on Amazon and sort by budget. Tldr: A single video editor is going to get better performance out of a DAS. I essentially built a more powerful NAS by using a consumer desktop and sourcing my own drive enclosure. The enclosure is hooked up to a 2018 Mac mini which is my "home server" so my PC, MacBook, and mobile devices can all access the data. I use it to store my Plex media library and personal files. I have the non-RAID version of the product I linked and I love it. So going with a RAID option may or may not be worth it depending on the bitrate of the videos being edited and if traditional backups are ok. RAID simply allows you to speed up read/write speed and loose a drive or two. While some NAS units may allow you to aggregate more than 1 Ethernet connection, without significant prosumer network hardware, a NAS is going to be slower than a DAS. The OWC enclosure I linked uses the USB 3.1 Gen2 protocol and can theoretically transfer data at 10Gbps (10x faster than the 1Gbps Ethernet ports found on most consumer routers). OWC makes some higher end options, but cheaper products are available.Ī DAS (direct attached storage) is simply an external enclosure over USB or some other protocol that houses drives. However, for a single user, you might look at something like a DAS. A NAS will use SMB as its file sharing protocol and is fully compatible with Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android. Maybe a bit overkilll considering they're more meant for a mutli user setup,Ī NAS is beneficial for having access from multiple computers or multiple users over the network or remotely.
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