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Ask an ExpertAndroid Basha – a premier technology YouTube channel in Jordan – has been captivating audiences for over 8 years with high quality, in-depth tech videos covering a wide range of products and gadgets. With over 1.5 million subscribers, Android Basha caters to both consumer and prosumer audiences, offering comprehensive coverage of smartphones, smart home tech, computing, 3D printing, electric vehicles, and virtual reality.
Media production challenges
Android Basha's increasing workload, and expanded capabilities led them to evaluate their current video production storage system. The channel was relying on a local network storage system using HDD based servers to archive all production projects, ensuring the preservation of master video copies and enabling access to original material for future projects. However, this setup posed limitations when it came to editing projects directly off the network share.
Their objective was clear in needing network attached storage with exceptional speed and reliability to facilitate direct editing and project work, eliminating the need to transfer data to multiple editing stations. Their proposed solution involved utilising an on-site server integrated with Kingston DC600M SSDs and server memory, configured as a singular data pool with redundancy, operating as network shared storage among all designated workstations.
These workstations were equipped with 10GbE network interfaces, allowing seamless editing of 4K 10Bit projects directly from the server. This configuration mitigated potential data loss, avoiding frequent file transfers. Upon video project completion, data was retained on the server's SSD based storage before being archived on the HDD based storage server.
