NAS or RAID for editing photo/video ?

[mjoshi123]

Which one will give faster performance for editing on MAC Studio M1 MAX base model ? NAS with 4 NVME 2 TB SSD in it or 2 x 2TB NVME SSD in RAID 0 connected thru thunderbolt to Mac Studio ? So far I've found one device that does NVME NAS - not sure how easy it will be to use though

Asustor Flashstor 6 FS6706T - 6 Bay All-SSD NAS Storage, Quad Core 2.0GHz, Six M.2 SSD, Dual 2.5GbE, 4GB RAM DDR4, Network Attached Storage (Diskless)

Flashstor is a compact NAS kit that uses M.2 SSD. Supports 6 M.2 SSDs, compact 2x 2.5 GLAN with 4GB RAM standard (up to 16GB) CPUs utilize Intel Celeron N5105 Quad-Core.

www.amazon.com

For RAID 0 solution with 2 NVME SSD I've not found anything that can act as enclosure and connect to Mac Studio, if you have any suggestions please share.
TIA

 

[velocityg4]

Connected directly to the Mac will be faster. Even if you get the upgraded NAS with 10GbE. That's still much slower than the Thunderbolt interface also additional overhead in the I/O for network operations.

OWC makes enclosures which handle 4xM.2 SSD. I just mention it since you were looking at 4x2TB NVMe on the NAS.

OWC Express 4M2

Four M.2 SSD bays with pure adrenaline inducing Thunderbolt 3 performance.

eshop.macsales.com

When it comes to data speed and a NAS. You look at them when you need multiple computers with a high speed connection. Just one computer is generally going to get faster performance with direct connected storage.

 

[ColdCase]

To maximize performance, use two high performance enclosures and two TB ports/TB4 cables, off hand I forget which ones, but you want them on different TB busses and then RAID them.

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...you-going-to-use-with-the-mac-studio.2337454/

As mentioned, NAS doesn't make sense unless you have a team working on the project.

 

[Killerbob]

Some QNAP NAS can work as DAS over TB3/4. I connect to a TVS-872XT via Thunderbolt, and with a few NVMe sticks for caching, a few SSDs for a dedicated storage pool, and large HDDs for the rest. That setup is plenty fast for real-time editing of 4K video files.