NAS for Resolve 15

I've been trying to look for a suitable NAS solution for Resolve 15. Looked at Synology, QNAP, 45 Drives and also Promise Tech. Wish to know what others are using and if anyone has a similar setup as me and what you are using?

As a background, I'm running on Mac. Need to connect to 5 computers for the collaborative features. Hopefully each comp can run on 100-200MB/s. I understand that if I need 100MB/s, 1GBe is sufficient. Anything more would require 10GBe. Also planning on running Raid10 for performance. My comps do not have TB3. And TB2 runs of more than 5m cost too much so gonna use RJ45. I'm doing mostly h264 editing but planning to convert to Prores Proxy for Optimization so that CPU does not need to overwork.

How do you setup the Database on these NAS and is there a difference using iSCSI vs the normal one? Any issues I'm not seeing?

Hi Vincent -
the QNAP works very well with Davinci Resolve clients. You should purchase an 8 bay QNAP with 8 7200 RPM drives, configured RAID 5 or RAID 6 static volume. There must be a 10G port in the QNAP. The cheapest model to use currently is the TVS-873e (the 10G card in an option card, but it's under $100). Better faster models are the TVS-1282T, and the TS-1685, but these cost more money. You can load PostgreSQL from the QNAP App center for free on the QNAP and use this for the database. All clients should connect to a 10G switch, even if they are 1G clients. The cheapest switch for this is the QNAP QSW-1208-8c, which is about $570. Better more flexible switches are made by Netgear (the XS series).

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.

I'm also interested in using iSCSI for a small (3-5 machine), mixed OS (macOS and Windows 10) editing suite.

I'm looking at the possibility of either setting up a dedicated Linux server for this - it looks like installing and configuring iSCSI on Debian is easy enough - or using SNS Xtarget on my iMac.

My goal is to share only the footage (.mp4 and .mov).

I wonder if you could answer a couple of questions though.

First, I assume that, since the files would be read-only (except for me, as I upload them), I need not worry about file corruption from shared access. Is that right?

Also: I am confused about the format of the disk. If I am using both macOS and Windows, how should I format the iSCSI disks? NTFS? Mac OS Extended? Or does iSCSI bypass that entirely?

I appreciate any clarity that you can offer! Thank you!

You are barking up the wrong tree with iSCSI. Block storage is for use with one machine, or with software that includes a shared-disk filesystem. A normal NAS protocol like SMB is what you need.

Hi Vincent -
the QNAP works very well with Davinci Resolve clients. You should purchase an 8 bay QNAP with 8 7200 RPM drives, configured RAID 5 or RAID 6 static volume. There must be a 10G port in the QNAP. The cheapest model to use currently is the TVS-873e (the 10G card in an option card, but it's under $100). Better faster models are the TVS-1282T, and the TS-1685, but these cost more money. You can load PostgreSQL from the QNAP App center for free on the QNAP and use this for the database. All clients should connect to a 10G switch, even if they are 1G clients. The cheapest switch for this is the QNAP QSW-1208-8c, which is about $570. Better more flexible switches are made by Netgear (the XS series).

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.

Hi Bob. For two clients it's necessary to connect both to a 10gbe switch to share the database?
I'm ordering a qnap, and my idea was connecting directly to the Nas, one by 10gbe, and the other by 1gbe. Will not work this way davinci's database in both?

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Jack Fairly is correct. You don't need a complex Debian Linux server to do this. Why go thru that aggravation. Get a cheap QNAP, load PostgreSQL, and have both your shared storage and your PostgreSQL server for very little money. And a super easy to use User Interface, no linux commands. Your job is to edit and color grade and make graphics, not be an IT genius ! No reason for iSCSI.

As for Naxto -
you have not said what QNAP you are ordering. If you get the TVS-1282T or the TS-1685, or the TS-1677x, it will come with four 1G ports and two 10G ethernet ports for free. You can simply plug in both your computers to these ports, setup static IP's on them (separate subnets) and do exactly what you want. Of course, for the PostgreSQL database to work, you MUST have the full Resolve Studio version. It will NOT work with the free version.

Bob Zelin