Whether it's the freezing cold Arctic tundra, the snowy peaks of mountains, or under the vast starry sky near erupting volcanoes, you can often find the figure of photographer Su Tie. As the Sigma China Imaging Ambassador, 500px Ambassador, founder of Fengguang Pixel, champion of the Chinese Astronomy Photography Competition, and the Greenwich Observatory's Annual Astronomy Photographer, Su Tie spends most of the year creating extreme landscapes around the world. In these extreme scenes and lighting conditions, he delivers outstanding and breathtaking works.
Near an active volcano, Sutie is capturing shots on a volcanic rock.
Each photo, each frame of video, is a photographer's labor of love.
For photographers like Sutie, every shot, every video is hard-earned. For a perfectionist creator like him, it requires thorough preparation beforehand and the right timing and conditions during the shoot. Many shots are one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable moments. From capturing the footage to the final storage, any storage issues could mean a significant loss.
"The cost of each shoot is high, and photos and videos are priceless to me, so data security is my top priority," Sutie says. "I believe a data storage device needs to be secure, fast, and easy to use, with acceptable costs."
Considering these needs, Sutie opted for a QNAP NAS for the imaging industry - the TVS-h1288X, paired with eight 16TB Seagate IronWolf NAS hard drives to build a NAS solution, using RAID 6 for large-capacity data storage. The NAS solution meets Sutie's data storage needs with its security, speed, and convenience. Whenever he goes on a shoot, Sutie carries an Apple laptop and at least a 4TB portable hard drive to save his photos and videos. When he gets home, he promptly copies the data from the laptop and portable hard drive into the NAS system, then uses a desktop or laptop to edit and process the videos.
Seagate IronWolf NAS Series Hard Drive 16TB
Seagate IronWolf NAS hard drive, guardian of creative content
"If you're planning to set up a NAS system, the Seagate IronWolf NAS hard drive comes highly recommended," says Sutie, who is very satisfied with it. The Seagate IronWolf NAS hard drive is optimized for NAS, ensuring the safety and reliability of Sutie's photos and video data. Designed for 24/7 use, it employs CMR conventional magnetic recording technology, ensuring high-speed and stable storage read/write performance while supporting multiple users to access data simultaneously, thus greatly enhancing the efficiency of photographers' work.
Every trip for a photographer means capturing a large number of photos and videos. Nowadays, photos have higher and higher resolutions, and videos have moved from 4k to 8k, leading to increasingly massive storage space requirements. With various capacity options, the Seagate IronWolf NAS hard drive can provide up to 18TB of storage, supporting up to 8 drive bays. Paired with NAS devices tailored for the imaging industry like the QNAP TVS-h1288X, it can fully meet the capacity needs of creative workers like Sutie.
Joining forces to safeguard creative data security
Seagate and QNAP, as long-term partners, have been closely collaborating to develop various storage solutions tailored for the imaging industry, content creators, and other sectors' data storage and management needs.
At the 20th-anniversary celebration of QNAP on April 12, 2024, the company unveiled the groundbreaking QTS 5.2.0 intelligent system. This milestone release introduces revolutionary optimizations in three key areas: data security, backup solutions, and system efficiency. With the addition of AI intelligent learning mechanisms and significant enhancements to system responsiveness, QTS 5.2.0 provides an improved user experience for data application and protection within an AI-enhanced ecosystem.
Seagate Iron Wolf at QNAP's 20th Anniversary Celebration
Seagate Technology's Senior Vice President and President of China Region, Sun Dan, stated: "For many years, Seagate and QNAP have been working hand in hand to provide various secure, stable, and efficient NAS storage solutions across industries. On the occasion of QNAP's 20th anniversary, the launch of QTS 5.2.0 intelligent system marks another milestone leap, ushering in a new era of intelligent systems. Seagate will continue to deepen its cooperation with QNAP on this basis, leveraging the technical advantages of both parties, continuously innovating, and introducing more NAS storage solutions to address user pain points. From software to hardware, we will comprehensively ensure the security of user data."
