“Time is the most valuable thing we have, we can’t buy it, but we can definitely try to save it. This is pretty much how I feel about my QNAP NAS, the no-wasting time solution. It makes my workflow easier, faster and safer.”
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Marco Grassi
Marco Grassi is a landscape photographer and photo educator leading workshops all over the world. Constantly on the move, he travels to many different locations throughout the year, but has his home base and office in Italy, where he finds time to edit and catalogue his work.
Marco’s work has been published and recognized extensively worldwide in a large variety of media outlets, such as the National Geographic, CNN, The Telegraph, BBC and GEO Magazine.
All of Marco’s works are sorted by year and saved to individual hard disks. This has led to a bundle of hard disks scattered on his desk, making it impractical to work with files in Lightroom as he needs to constantly unplug and plug in hard drives.
Plus, since his entire business is based on digital files, data loss must be avoided. With his current storage solution it is highly impractical and would take an extensive period of time to fully back up his work.
Marco’s constant travels also deprive him of access to his archived work. He would occasionally bring several hard drives with him on his travels if necessary, but a centralized online solution that doesn’t require any space in his carry-on luggage would be a more ideal solution.
Due to the constant growth of his archives, Marco has realized to need to change his modus operandi, which drastically improves his workflows to make the whole process faster, safer and easier.
Marco’s main concerns are data security and speed, and the QNAP TVS-872XT fits the bill. Featuring two Thunderbolt™ 3 ports, a 10GbE port, and two separate PCIe slots which can install M.2 SSD cards, the TVS-872XT has immense potential to accelerate multimedia editing. With its 8 hot-swappable drive trays, the TVS-872XT provides vast storage potential and data-protecting RAID configurations. This model is the best solution for time conscious photographers like him.
With throughput of up to 1230 MB/s using Thunderbolt 3 and 1132 MB/s using 10GbE connectivity with encryption, the QNAP TVS-872XT saves Marco so much time. Marco had never thought that a NAS would enable him with real-time editing of 4K videos and large PSD files. The TVS-872XT also automatically caches the files he’s working on to a fast SSD before saving them to large-capacity hard drives once editing is complete. This feature alone is a game changer for him.
He also mentioned: “I’m sure that the QNAP NAS will play an important role in the growth of my business. Since time is money and this new system is helping me so much with making things easier and faster, I can now focus that time on other important projects and develop new ideas without having to waste too much time in manually transferring data to different hard drives as I used to do. Also, the fact that I know that I can use expansion units to expand the storage space in case I run out of space, makes it the perfect long-term solution for my business.”
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