Studios run on large files and short tempers: RAW batches that must land somewhere fast, editors who need the same project at the same time, and clients who want to see results without a download link. A white-label NAS appliance gives equipment brands and studio-service resellers a product that answers all three — under their own brand, with the workflow rules built in.
A wedding shoot or a commercial day easily produces hundreds of gigabytes. USB drives and ad-hoc folders turn into a versioning mess the moment a second person touches the project.
Uploading selects to a consumer cloud for the client to click through is slow and looks improvised. Review belongs on a screen in the lounge, next to the coffee machine.
Clients come back for re-edits years later. Cold storage on random drives is where studios lose material — and with it, repeat business.
As soon as the photographer ingests a shoot, selects stream to a display in the client lounge. The client walks out having already picked favourites — the same day as the shoot.
Edit bays read the same project pool over 2.5GbE. The editor, the colourist and the assistant stop passing drives around the room.
Final deliverables go out as password-protected, expiring links served from the studio’s own appliance — no third-party account required on either side.
Assistants upload, leads edit, production sees contracts. Role-based folders keep the studio’s internal structure out of the way of the work.
Finished projects land in an archive pool indexed by client, year and shoot. Re-edits start from the original material instead of a hard-drive lottery.
Tens of thousands of frames get organized by people, scene and location on the device itself, so the archive grows useful instead of growing only larger.
X4 NAS Server — the studio workhorse: 4 bays up to 120 TB, dual 2.5GbE for simultaneous edit and backup traffic, Intel N100 and 8 GB memory for on-device organization. X4 specifications.
S2 Smart Storage Hub — 2 bays up to 60 TB for single-photographer studios and content creators. S2 specifications.
A2 Pro — the compact option for satellite editing suites and on-set backup stations. A2 Pro specifications.
Illustrative rendering of the application environment, not a photograph of a specific deployment.
Ingest folders, review-screen behaviour, delivery-link rules and archive policies ship pre-configured to the workflow your customers expect — not to a generic consumer setup.
Enclosure, boot sequence, admin interface and packaging carry your brand. The appliance reads as your company’s storage line, end to end.
One platform family spans solo-creator to multi-edit-bay studios, so your catalogue can grow from a 2-bay entry SKU to the 4-bay flagship without changing suppliers.
Requirement review replies within one working day, usually within 24 hours. Start at the AI NAS OEM/ODM page or request the full OEM info pack.
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