With a few modifications to DSM, you can save your Final Cut Pro X library to your Synology NAS. Especially useful for those who have a 10GbE-enabled NAS.
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Jeff does an amazing job, helping up out on our day to day tech troubles.
sadly, if you add this option, the time machine support is disabled on the Synology NAS, you wont be able to start the time machine backup on this NAS.
You can keep AFP enabled, and use both Time Machine and Shared Storage for FCPX. I just recommended disabling AFP if you’re not actively using it.
I guess I can contribute to another great reason. Your MacBook Pro or iMac might not have enough storage for editing and store so editing of a NAS doesn’t take up space when editing except when you export but in the end. I edit off a SSD.
Another reason is that it allows you to have your working storage in a whole different area your office/house.
What would happen if two Macs open the same library at the same time.
Yan interesting question but you can set users and permissions not only to FCPX but to each individual library file as well
FCP X should only allow access to one. You’ll need to close a library before opening it on another computer.
9to5Mac the Synology NAS is such a versatile product. You can do so many things. You can also install 2 x ssd’s for the read / write cache. Wouldn’t that help for video editing off the nas?
This is a great video. I have 4 sata ssds working in raid 0 for my current fcpx projects but for old projects this is gold! Thanks Jeff!
We use a QNAP as it had 2x Thunderbolt 3 ports as well as 2x Gigabit Ethernet ports. Works a treat for multipke computers editing with FCPX!
Yeah, that’s a really nice option. Will have to check one out. Wish Synology had built in Thunderbolt 3.
9to5Mac yeah I love Synology products but that’s the only feature why we went with QNAP
hi Jeff, I just want to mention that ssh command works in your case because your local user account name matches with login name on NAS, if not, you can specify ssh username before @ sign like this — loginname@mynasip
And if you use standard ssh port, and this is 22, you can not mention it and not use -p flag
Some additional recommendations:
For maximum speed,, especially when using 10GbE, use the EXT4 file system instead of btrfs and ‘normal’ RAID instead of SHR (there is a benchmark page on the interwebs, unfortunately in German only).
Install the 3rd party ‘nano’ text editor package on the Synology (just google it). This works much more like a Mac text editor than the preinstalled vim editor.
ALWAYS use the “tesparm” command after Samba config changes. You can easily break SMB access by syntax errors in the config file(s).
Add ‘socket options=TCP_NODELAY,IPTOS_LOWDELAY’ to the smb.conf on the Syno.
Add ‘net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0’ to the /etc/sysctl.conf on the Mac.
Enable Ethernet MTU size of 9000 (Jumbo Buffers) on the Syno and the Mac (plus on the network switch in case of a switched (e.g. non-direct) connection).
very handy, thank you!!
I am so glad to see this kind of video!! I have the NAS and it is set up but I really dont know how to use it correctly. I just got the 10 g ethernet!!!
I love your videos, Jeff, but I have a lot of comments about your Terminal use. – Now I’ll start off by saying that none of what you did was wrong per se. Just not the recommended way of doing things, and you made things harder on yourself than you needed to.
I’ll not talk about ssh since others have already done that enough.
But it is not recommended to create an interactive root shell with sudo -i. Instead, use sudo in front of the commands that require super-user privileges. In your case that was basically all the commands, so fair enough, but it’s generally bad practice and I would encourage people to not create interactive root shells.
Furthermore, using vim is way harder for people who aren’t so used to the Terminal than using something like Nano. Nano is a much simpler text editor. You don’t need to switch to an insert mode to enter text, and when you quit and write the data, you don’t need to remember anything – all the commands are visible at the bottom of the screen. And nano is basically as common as vim out there.