“The great point to the QNAP system is that it can be upgraded in size so easily. This helps to future proof our backup solutions and with reliability comes peace of mind.”
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Darran Leal, professional photographer and founder of World Photo Adventures
World Photo Adventures is a family-owned travel and tour agency which specializes in offering photographers of all levels amazing photographic travel services. Since the 1980s, professional photographer and tour guide Darran Leal, his wife Julia and two sons Pearce and Frazer, have operated over 400 successful photo tours, workshop and seminars worldwide. Aiming to create marvelous and memorable photography journeys, World Photo Adventures organizes trips to many of the world’s most fascinating destinations.
As part of World Photo Adventures’ daily work routine, Darran and his family help photographers handle a huge amount of files generated from the tours, including photos and video clips. They would sort, process and storage images directly in the field or in their two editing studios back in Australia. To greatly simplify their workflows and boost collaboration, they looked to a comprehensive file management and storage option.
Also, after years of operating business, World Photo Adventures accumulated a great quantity of digital files, of various kinds, from PDF documents, videos, audio-visual materials to travel files from their tours and workshops. When it comes to backup, their current storage devices gradually fails to meet their requirements—there is a bottleneck with transfer speed and it is very easy for the storage space to be exhausted. To tackle this problem, World Photo Adventures demanded a much larger storage space with expandability and fast data transfer speed for long-term backing up and archiving of their precious data for future reference.
As Darran and his family members mainly work on Mac desktops and laptops, they chose to deploy the QNAP TS-453BT3 to centralize and manage their data. Powered by an Intel® Celeron® J3455 quad-core processor, the TS-453BT3 features dual Thunderbolt™ 3 ports and 10GBASE-T connectivity to serve as an ideal storage solution for professional collaborative media editing and high-speed backup.
Thunderbolt™ 3 provides two-times higher transfer speed than that of the previous generation. It provides photographers and media creators with blazing-fast and adequate bandwidth required for smooth video editing and faster media file transfer. The TS-453BT3 can be connected with up to 2 Thunderbolt devices, allowing Darran and his family members to process photos and edit other types of media files simultaneously. As the TS-453BT3 helps boost collaboration between the team, they can handle intensive daily workloads with ease.
TS-453BT3 provides sufficient capacity for storage and backup, as it can be flexibly expanded by connecting Thunderbolt™ 2 expansion enclosures based on their needs. Moreover, with full RAID support, the TS-453BT3 keeps the archived/backed up data under well protection, minimizing the risk of data loss.
When Darran and his son Frazer are out in the field on guiding tours, they can access the TS-453BT3 via the Internet. Leveraging the convenient remote access feature, they help their photographers upload their photo images to the NAS for instant backup.
The TS-453BT3 delivers very exceptional performance, exceeding the Leal family’s expectations. Since they have started work with the TS-453BT3, they have seen a 40% increase in data transfer speed. Benefiting the high-speed Thunderbolt 3 connection and high-capacity storage space, now they are able to run image processing, storage and backup tasks with great efficiency. The Thunderbolt NAS system brings a trustworthy storage and backup solution that suits all of World Photo Adventures’ business needs. “The great point to the QNAP system is that it can be upgraded in size so easily,” said Darran with satisfaction, “this helps to future proof our backup solutions and with reliability comes peace of mind.”
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