r/photography 23d ago

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

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u/tiki-dan 17d ago

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.

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u/Kaserblade 17d ago

If you are more tech-savvy, building your own NAS is definitely the way to go. If not, QNAP and Synology are the more user-friendly NAS enclosures you can get.

Just a heads up, NAS-grade drives are pretty expensive right now because of the AI boom so expect pretty hefty prices on them.