The QNAP TVS-1282T3 is feature-rich and relatively affordable. If you need large storage with redundancy, want it portable, and need dependency, you should strongly consider the Shuttle. The transfer speeds were good enough to work off of regardless of the type of footage you are working with. The cost of the Shuttle is high, but it offers a great product for the price. The Shuttle has a hardware RAID controller and is capable of being configured with 4 TB, 6 TB, 8 TB and 12 TB drives, or with two 10 or 12 TB drives and two EV bays. It has up to 1000 Megabytes per second transfer speeds and we saw that and some with an average of 1028MB/s in RAID 0. If you have a PC, formatting in exFAT does not significantly hinder the performance with a read speed of 551 MB/s and write speed of 761 MB/s RAID 5 in HFS+ gets the best performance with redundancy from the Shuttle. Factory formatted saw a read speed of 553 MB/s and a write speed of 765 MB/s. The Shuttle can be configured from 24 Terabytes (TB) all the way up to 72 TB.įrom the factory, the Shuttle comes pre-configured in RAID 5 formatted in HFS+. The SanDisk Professional G-RAID Shuttle 4 is fast, stout, and highly configurable, but it all comes at a price.
