German Photographer Mustafa Morad Selects Asustor NAS

Mustafa Morad is a veteran cinematographer and photographer. He is also an educator at the Canon Academy since 2019 in Germany for Pro-Video and Photo and has trained hundreds of people. He’s also a professional wedding videographer and photographer working in a variety of countries, including, but not limited to South Africa, France, Morocco, Switzerland, Spain and Austria. Now that he has his own studio, he works with a team together on different projects.

Challenge

As a professional cinematographer and photographer, he creates tonnes of footage and has difficulties storing his files properly and safely.

The challenges are:

• Organization when saving data.
• Redundancy for extra data protection.
• A way to share files with teammates and clients.
• Access to his data anytime, anywhere.

Morad’s Needs

He once lost several important videos because of a faulty HDD. This resulted in the failure to complete an important project. To rectify this, he shot the whole project again at his own expense. Afterwards, he ended up saving his projects on at least 3 or 3 different HDDs, but he found that it was disorganized and difficult to manage.

He’d like a solution to his needs as listed below:

• A solution that can support at least 8 drives for maximum security and data protection while also providing great performance.
• Redundancy for protection against hardware failure.
• A way to work with others on projects in real time.
• A way to access all his files from all over the world.

Why Asustor NAS Solution?

Morad decided to go shopping for NAS. After comparing a variety of models, he felt that the Lockerstor 8 was what he needed. The Lockerstor 8 gives him everything he wishes in a small package but with high capacities for storage and ended up installing eight 14TB drives. Many his projects consume over 100GB. Employing RAID-6 gives Mustafa 84TB with improved redundancy. Asustor’s MyArchive is also an option if he leaves at least one bay open for archiving.

Morad’s editing software is Final Cut Pro X and it combines all footage, audio and other important files into one project file. He needs a way to save and edit the file quickly while also share with his team over the internet. Using the Lockerstor 8, he can edit the files saved in the NAS over the network by treating the folder as a virtual drive on his Mac.

The Lockerstor 8 has 2x10GbE and 2×2.5GbE ports that provide more than enough bandwidth for almost any task. To take advantage of the capabilities of the Lockerstor 8, Morad installed two 500GB NVMe SSDs to give him faster performance when transferring files and provides a great way to edit content on the NAS itself. The Lockerstor 8 also has a variety of other features, like Datasync Center, which helps Morad sync and back up files from his NAS to his preferred cloud services. AiFoto 3 can automatically backup of all his photos and videos from his iPhone and iPad. The Lockerstor 8 also offers a variety of apps that he likes to use for backup, sync and sharing.

What Changed After Using Lockerstor 8

Morad’s whole workflow changed since he purchased his Lockerstor 8. He can copy all his files into the NAS from an external drive with One Touch Backup. After storing all his data in his Lockerstor 8, he can edit the projects on the NAS itself and no longer worry about the terrible performance of external hard drives while also taking advantage of its organization.

His sharing workflow also changed a lot. He no longer has to rely on unsafe public cloud services to share large files. He can share files saved in his NAS in real time with anyone he works with as well as clients even when he’s away from the studio. That’s crucial because some of his best ideas have been spontaneous. AiData, AiMaster, AiFoto3 on his iOS Devices have been crucial to accessing all his files when he needs them the most while the Lockerstor 8 provides a reliable, high capacity, backup system that is fast and convenient to make his life easier and efficient.

Asustor NAS Advantages:

•     Backup Plan
•     MyArchive
•     USB external backups
•     Scheduled backups
•     Easy-to-use
•     Photo Gallery 3/AiFoto3
•     Easy sharing
•     Variety of apps
•     Quiet and efficient
•     Streams videos to web browser