@Jimmy9008 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:
@scottalanmiller said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:
@Jimmy9008 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:
This looks like another option, although, it does just look like a NAS to me, just through a specific 'media' vendor.
https://www.studionetworksolutions.com/
That's a scam. I use those guys about once a week as an example of "market vertical scams." I've had customers get seriously screwed over by them.
Never buy "industry" IT equipment, it's always a scam. IT is IT, anything industry specific is another way of saying "not good enough to pass IT muster, so we try to bypass IT by claiming it's specifically made for an industry."
They literally make the worst storage you could possibly imagine.
Could you tell me more about this? I am not sure I fully understand but would like to. Is the thought that because its a "NAS for Editors" and not just a "NAS" that its not good, otherwise it would be a NAS for everybody regardless of need?
That's how you know it isn't good... it's being marketed that way because if IT looked at it, they'd know it was bad. But if they say "for editors", that's a trick to get the editors to say "IT doesn't know, because this is special for editors." But nothing, anywhere, in the world is special like that, IT factors are always the same. Anything trying to scam someone to get past IT oversight is because it couldn't compete if IT evaluated it.
The issues we found with them in the past:
- Insanely high pricetag, about 500% the cost of assembling their devices yourself.
- Just cheap, consumer crap mounted in a colorful chassis.
- Misconfigured to be both slow and very risky.
- No IT level support, it's people who don't know storage or editing conning people, so when something goes wrong, what do you do?
Or reverse it... there is nothing, whatsoever, good about their products. Other than giving it a marketing name to trick people into thinking it is designed for editing, what does it have going for it? It doesn't have the engineering, support, market knowledge, standardization, honesty, intent, or price of appropriate equipment. What would make someone consider it in the first place? From what we found before... nothing. We were never able to identify a single factor that would make it viable, let alone put it on a list for consideration.
That's the entire trick. Just take any generic PC with several hard drives, slap "designed for editing" on the box and voila, people will short list it and never evaluate it against industry standards. A better option would be, for example, Synology, QNAP, ReadyNAS and other generic SAN units. And that's not saying that they are good options, only that they are similar, but vastly better options. Or just build a SAM-SD. Essentially it's a SAM-SD built by people without knowledge of computing basics.