TerraMaster Thunderbolt 3 RAID Storage and 10GbE NAS for 4K/8K Video Editing

With the development of multimedia production and broadcasting technology, more and more film and television works are produced based on high-definition, 4K or even 8K environments, and the size of a single video material can reach dozens of gigabytes, or even hundreds gigabytes. The space, reliability, and transmission performance issues of storage devices are becoming more and more difficult.

TerraMaster Technology Co. Ltd. provided Thunderbolt 3 RAID storage and 10GbE NAS series, the 2 high-speed storage solutions for 4K video editing, which are suitable for professionals with high requirements.

Thunderbolt 3 RAID storage solution
For those who need fast data transfer speeds, the most popular connection is Thunderbolt. As you know, Thunderbolt3 has a theoretical speed of around 40Gb/s. When working with 4K or even 8K video editing projects, the size of the media files can increase significantly. For larger files, it takes longer to transfer them between the computer and the storage device. The high-speed Thunderbolt 3 interface will shorten the transmission time and improve work efficiency.

The company’s Thunderbolt 3 RAID storage product series are all equipped with 2 Thunderbolt 3 interfaces, using professional hardware RAID controllers, 40Gb/s data transmission, and can be combined with Thunderbolt 3 devices and Macbook Thunderbolt 4/USB 4. It support multiple array modes such as RAID-0, 1, 5, 6, 50, 10, and JBOD, which provide a guarantee for data security and can use user storage capacity with maximum efficiency.

D8-332

D8-332 supports 8 hard disks to form multiple RAID modes. In RAID-0 array mode, it can achieve a transmission speed of up to 1,600MB/s, and in RAID-5 it can achieve a speed of up to 1,440MB/s.

D16

D16 Thunderbolt 3 supports 16 HDDs to form a variety of RAID modes. In RAID-0 array mode, it can achieve a transmission speed of up to 2,817MB/s, and in RAID-6 it can achieve a speed of up to 2,480MB/s.

When using Thunderbolt 3 products, less time is required for nearly every aspect of the post-production workflow. Users can transfer hours of footage from Blackmagic devices to Adobe Premiere Pro at fast speed. Conversely, for uncompressed HD 10- and 12-bit video, users can edit ProRes 422 (HQ), ProRes 4444 XQ and other streams. Thumbnail and preview rendering is more responsive when working with large projects with a large number of HD clips.

10GbE NAS solution
If user have multiple editors or even multiple teams in video post production, then you’ll need to be able to collaborate and share project across multiple computers in multiple offices. With Thunderbolt storage, you can only make a few connections and have no sharing function. At this time, high-speed NAS devices are more suitable for team collaboration and sharing. The company’s 10GbE NAS is compatible with a variety of video editing software to edit directly from the NAS, which is for editing teams from different locations without the cable distance limitations like Thunderbolt devices.

T9-450

The firm’s 10GbE NAS product series supports connection to workstations via 2 SFP+ 10GbE interfaces on the device, enabling dozens of workstations to access storage and post-editing simultaneously.

Through network aggregation (link aggregation), it can provide up to 20Gb/s transmission bandwidth. It is also equipped with 2x2.5GbE RJ45 network interfaces, which also provide convenient and flexible maintenance for NAS devices, and are convenient to operate, maintain and manage in different network environments.

T12-450

The 10GbE NAS product series launched by the company include 9-bay T9-450, 12-bay T12-450 and 8-bay short depth rackmount U8-450. By building a 10GbE network, multiple Windows/Mac workstations can be connected to the T9-450 at the same time, and the collaborative work of online editing of multi-track 4K materials, special effects production, video synthesis, and import and export of lens clips becomes improving work efficiency and greatly reducing the production time of the project.

U8-450

All the firm’s high-speed 10Gb/s NAS series support various video editing software, such as Edius, Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro. Collaborative editing of multi-track 4K media, special effects production, video compositing, and clip import/export.

Thunderbolt 3 RAID storage + 10GbE NAS
In order to better serve team and improve work efficiency, user can also have the solution of TerraMaster Thunderbolt 3 RAID storage and 10GbE NAS at the same time. User can directly connect the Thunderbolt 3 RAID storage to computer for 4K/8K video editing, and then use the 10GbE NAS to share projects for better high-speed video editing and project collaboration sharing experience.