That does look like it could be a good option…

I do have an update to my initial query… it looks like the business is investigating the idea of moving everything to cloud based storage, so our archive would no longer be on the NAS.
I’m not sure how this is going to effect editing performance, it may be that we have to download clips when we find…

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Should mention – my plan was to copy everything off the NAS that’s currently on there onto hard drives temporarily, so the NAS would be a kind of clean slate to work on.

Hi Eric, thanks for replying…

I think the NAS is a Synology, not sure on the model as I’ve never actually seen it ‘in the flesh’ so to speak, but I can find out.

Currently, the NAS is basically full, so there’s around 18TB, then we have a lot of footage on external hard drives too, probably another 6-8TB.. But, I suspect a large portion of the…

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Hi Everyone,

Hoping for some advice for an archive novice…

I work at a sports team that has a massive archive of different footage, this can be full games from decades ago through to folders of rushes from training sessions, events etc. All different formats and varying quality.

The archive has never been maintained properly and is currently in not…

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