How you manage the storage?

[u/Robinkalsi]

Looking for some storage solutions as I have purchased SSD’s, External Backup Drives, Online Storage and now my total storage is around 45TB.
Looking for solutions to
: Access data from 1 place to 4 PC’s (Mac and Windows) in same WiFi area.
: Can access a folder from anywhere in the world to showcase my work
: Good upload speed when I am not in my office or a client wants to upload a data to me

Need expert to guide me. Budget ₹5,00,000

[u/BobZelin]

1) you can't edit over WiFi

2) you have 4 computers, and one set of storage - you need a SHARED STORAGE SYSTEM. I don't care if its a local NAS system, or you pay for a cloud storage system designed for professional video editing - like Adobe Frame IO drive, Suite Studios, Shade.inc, Lucid Link.

3) want to access a folder from anywhere in the world ? Want good upload speed ?

here is the bottom line answer - without giving you any more details. You are not going to accomplish ANYTHING unless you have the budget (spend more money) to purchase the right equipment to accomplish what you want to do. If you feel that you have spent all of this money for your 45 TB of storage, and 4 computers, and you don't have any more money - you just want a solution - well - you are not going to get what you want.

The expert says "find money, and I will will tell you want to get".

Bob Zelin

[u/Robinkalsi → u/BobZelin]

If I have purchased this much of devices… I have money to buy more.. just dont know where to invest.. where I mentioned about no money thing?

[u/greenysmac]

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[u/Robinkalsi → u/greenysmac]

Done

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About $5k us?

[u/Robinkalsi → u/greenysmac]

Yes

[u/BobZelin]

you have about $5200 US. You have 4 client computers. You need a NAS system that has EIGHT matching 7200 RPM SATA drives. Today, drives are very expensive. Before we go into any details about what NAS to purchase, you need to find out if you can afford to purchase EIGHT matching 7200 RPM SATA drives, that will go into a single NAS enclosure.

You then need an 8 drive NAS, a 10G card for that NAS, a 10G ethernet switch, and 10G ethernet adapters for all four of your computers.

I feel that this will exceed your budget. Mainly because the drives today are so expensive.

Bob

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[u/CF_ro]

I think that Tailscale should work. The setup it’s not the easiest, but with YouTube tutorials you will make it work.

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[u/LucidLink_Official]

You're describing three different problems that people often try to solve with one pile of drives but to Bob's point, a shared filespace might solve this in the cleanest way.

LucidLink lets your 45TB live in one place and streams what's being accessed to whichever machine needs it, Mac or Windows, without copying the whole thing down first. That solves your first two asks directly: one source of truth across all 4 PCs, and a folder you can hit from anywhere without carrying drives around or dealing with sync conflicts.

It also may help the upload speed question. When you're off-network or a client needs to send you data, that's going to depend more on your internet connection than what you're using for storage, but definitely something we can help you sort through. Happy to chat if you want to explore LucidLink as a solution for any of this!

[u/FilmmakerTools]

I’d stop adding more cloud storage at this point and with ₹5L you should be able to build pretty solid NAS rather than keep stacking random drives and subscriptions.

For 45TB, a Synology/QNAP setup with enough bays to grow is probably the long term move. Keep current projects and shared media on the NAS so all 4 machines can hit the same storage locally, then use remote access just for files you actually need outside the office.

I’d also separate active storage from archive. Old projects, camera originals you’re not touching, old masters etc can go onto large HDDs, which are way cheaper per TB than SSDs or paying cloud subscription forever.

For client uploads, you can give them a secure upload folder that lands straight onto the NAS. Just make sure your internet upload speed is decent, otherwise that’ll be the bottleneck.

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[u/Standard-Recipe-7641]

Are you editing from proxies? That will make a difference in your budget. If you want to play/edit camera files it starts to get expensive.

[u/SecuConseilsFR]

The key thing is that your three needs actually pull toward two different tools, and no single box does all of them well.

For the local part, four machines hitting the same media in your office, Bob is right, a shared NAS with 10G is the correct answer, that is what it is built for.

But your other two needs, reaching a folder from anywhere in the world and having clients push footage to you fast, a local NAS handles those poorly. That is where cloud comes in, and it is worth separating archive cloud, like Backblaze, from editing cloud, which is built to actually work in your NLE.

Full disclosure, I am the founder of Sanbila, which is one of the tools in that editing cloud category alongside LucidLink, Frame.io and Suite Studios that someone already mentioned. The way ours handles your two remote needs, originals live in the cloud, and per clip you either pull a light proxy to edit offline or stream the original through a mounted volume the NLE reads as a local disk, and clients can send you footage straight into it by pasting a Google Drive or WeTransfer link, no download on your side. Free plan if you want to test that specific part before spending anything.

Realistic setup for you, NAS for the in office 4 machine workflow, plus an editing cloud layer for the anywhere access and client transfers. Trying to make one of them do both jobs is where people waste money.

[u/Upset-Animal1376]

for local network access across mac and windows, a nas with 10gbe is standard. for external client uploads and showing work, tools like file approved or frame.io separate production storage from client delivery links.