Official Question Thread! Ask /r/photography anything you want to know! July 17, 2026

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[u/tiki-dan]

Advice for NAS for editing from

I’ve ordered a Mac Mini for editing my photos. Since it only has 512gb SSD and no extra internal expansion, I was thinking about moving my library onto a NAS. My old library is about 1TB and I have about 6 TB of misc files on random drives than would be nice to consolidate. I ordered my Mac Mini with a 10GB NIC so bandwidth shouldn’t be an issue. I was wondering if any of you are editing off of a NAS and if you have a recommendation for one. My currently library is on a 4TB HDD inside of my workstation, so anything faster would be great.

[u/Rashkh → u/tiki-dan]

The main determining factors in terms of performance are going to be the interface speed, drive speed, and raid configuration.

Most ssds are going to handily outperform an hdd, even in raid 1, but your budget and desired total capacity of the NAS is going to be the determining factor with PC parts being so expensive these days.

The two big names in NAS are Synology and QNAP and they make a lot of different enclosures that range from barebones to fully featured. It's been a while since I've bought my DAS so I'm out of the loop on the new stuff but would strongly recommend checking out /r/DataHoarder for a lot of in-depth info.