Shooting great video can literally take you anywhere in the world but when editing video there are some very good reasons to do it locally. Locally refers to computer storage—what a computer thinks is local or directly attached to it, such as an internal hard disk drive or a USB drive. Local storage is convenient, familiar, easy to manage, and makes it easy for you to add elements to your projects. It is also loved by video editing software. To get the best out of your favorite editing program and to enable full functionality (that is, all the bells & whistles), local storage, as opposed to storage attached to your office network or LAN, is usually required. Otherwise all bets are off—some functionality may be restricted or disabled. Less is definitely not more.

The trouble with only using local storage is that its often neither big enough nor fast enough to be able to handle storing and editing video files—especially as you shoot at higher and higher resolutions. Fortunately there's good news. The MSS 280 gives you the best of all worlds. Our advanced software makes your computer think the MSS 280 is storage local to your computer. In fact, every computer connected to the MSS 280 will see it connected as if it were local storage and so will everyone's favorite video editor. Karen can use Final Cut, Jan can use Premiere, and Matt Media Composer. All at the same time. With all the bells & whistles. All using the MSS 280.

At their business grows Matt, Jan, and Karen wish it was easier for the them to work together: To collaborate, share files, and work on the same project. Their current NAS storage is ok when one or maybe two of them use it, but when it's all three of them, all too often there's a problem. Sometimes even a power outage or someone pulling the wrong cable (again, Jan—although in fairness the cables are a real mess back there) for another glitch to occur. Angelo at tech support is super helpful but time spent taking to Angelo is time not spent working on what pays the bills. Or playing GTA 5.

The MSS 280 lets multiple users easily access and use files at the same time without complaint. It’s always ready when needed—in fact the file system the MSS 280 uses (NTFS™) takes a bit of effort to mess up. It’s been around a while and knows a thing or two about just working. The MSS 280 provides a common workspace so all users can all see all their files and work on what they want, when they want to. Since the MSS 280 acts like a local disk there’s no network volumes to mount or waiting for directory file structures to load. Karen can even take Angelo off speed dial. The MSS 280 works transparently behind the scenes so you can focus on getting your work done. Your way. The MSS 280: Easy and Reliable. Just the way it should be.

The MSS 280 is designed and purpose built for video production (audio producers will love it too!). Together with high quality components, the latest enterprise-grade hard drives, and its rugged good looks, it uses the reliable NTFS file system with RAID 6 data protection to keep your precious footage and files safe. As cool as that may sound, what does it mean?

RAID 6 protection means that even in the unlikely event that two (2) hard drives fail, simultaneously, they wont lose any data. They would only have to replace the bad drives. The MSS 280 will take care of everything else. And losing 2 hard drives at the same time is not very likely anyway—unless you're super careless with your latte grande (I'm looking at you, Karen) or that celebration of landing the big client gets really out of hand. Even if the unthinkable did happen (data corruption!!), data recovery services for NTFS are effective and widely available (unlike for proprietary storage systems). Your video is your business. The MSS 280 is built to take good care of it.

Like many of their peers, Matt, Jan, and Karen’s storage has grown with them and consists of a few appliances they bought online and a big box of drives. Swapping drives to find what they need is one of their favorite activities. Not. Not even compared to rush hour traffic. Fortunately the MSS 280 solves this problem. It has 72TB of usable storage capacity (96TB raw) and provides fast access to files and media so you can store everything in one place and find things quickly when you need them. And without swapping drives.

The MSS 280 is designed to let you work they way you want to. If you prefer to use Mac or Windows or Linux or even all three, you will get the same user experience from the MSS 280. It will act the same on each operating system—as a local drive. This cross platform compatibility is a good thing. The MSS 280 all supports all major creative software. If Jan likes using Adobe Premiere and Matt likes using Apple Final Cut Pro the MSS 280 will be OK with that. Everyone can use their favorite editor and sit in their favorite chair. All at the same time.

Much more than just storage, the MSS 280 provides a powerful, cross-platform, multi-user, file-sharing environment. Designed and built for video production, the MSS 280 will help streamline your workflows. Locate and share media quickly and easily without needing to swap disks. Work on the same projects and use the same clips at the same time—all while knowing your data is RAID 6 protected on the resilient NTFS™ file system. With dual 10Gb/s Ethernet ports and 72TB of usable space, the MSS 280 gives you the capacity and performance you need in a user-friendly desktop form factor. Mac, Windows, Linux. Get STUFF done. Faster.