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Business Name: CreativeSoul Photography

  • Location: Atlanta, USA
  • Industry: Photography
  • NAS Model: Drivestor 4 Pro

"The combination of NAS products from ASUSTOR and Western Digital has revolutionized storage" - Regis and Kahran Bethencourt, Canon US brand ambassadors, bestselling authors, and professional children's photographers


About Regis and Kahran Bethencourt

Regis and Kahran Bethencourt are professional children's photographers working as Canon brand ambassadors in Atlanta, GA USA. Their works are not only aesthetic but also full of culture, which can be seen in major media outlets. They have released children's photo books like “Glory” and “The Me I Choose to Be”, which have appeared on bestseller lists.

File Storage and Backups – Time Consuming and Labor Intensive

Regis and Kahran have been engaged in photography for more than 13 years and have accumulated thousands of photos and videos in that time. Organizing and storing these files consumes a lot of their time and storage space. Therefore, they have been looking for better scalable storage solution that include but are not limited to external hard drives, cloud storage and file sharing apps. Since these types of storage solutions are made by different manufacturers, there is no cohesiveness or security when it comes to making backups. Files need to be manually stored in each product or service and that can be tedious at best.

Similarly, this also raises a number of issues with the storage of Regis and Kahran. One issue is the possibility to lose external drives. Regis and Kahran learned this when they accidentally left their external hard drive on vacation and were able to retrieve it after searching for it to help prevent any significant data loss or rework.

The Solution

Regis and Kahran want to store, backup, and organize their photography work more easily and quickly. Since their work is spread across the United States, they hope to be able to store and back up new files any time no matter where they are.
Simultaneously, because Regis and Kahran have work partners in different countries, they hope that these partners can also easily obtain original files, edit them and easily put finished projects in the storage space designated by Regis and Kahran, so that the team can work faster and more efficiently.


Why an ASUSTOR NAS

Photography is very labor intensive, so when Regis and Kahran searched for a new storage solution, ease of use was an important consideration. ASUSTOR’s operating system, ADM, is simple and easy to understand. It’s as intuitive as a typical tablet UI, which allows them to easily complete the process from initialization and set up their NAS. If they are unsure on how to use certain features, Regis and Kahran have found that ASUSTOR College, the official page on NAS tutorials, provides numerous tutorials for using every feature on an ASUSTOR NAS.

Product quality was also one of their considerations. Since files are kept for years, hardware reliability and stability are critical. ASUSTOR NAS consistently ranks as among the best NAS devices for quality and performance, giving Regis and Kahran confidence in choosing ASUSTOR for their next storage solution. In particular, Regis and Kahran have read numerous reviews, and one review that caught their eye was PCMag’s top ten NAS devices, of which ASUSTOR occupied forty percent of the list.

Why WD Red

While there are numerous HDDs and SSDs available with different levels of performance, reliability, endurance, warranty terms and price points, most are just generic devices that could be used in a wide variety of systems or applications. Western Digital’s WD Red SSDs and WD Red Pro HDDs have been specifically optimized to be used in NAS devices to achieve improved performance, high reliability and endurance to increase system response time and confidently store large amounts of data. WD Red Pro hard drives and flash storage offer concentrated performance for NAS environments in small- to medium-sized businesses. Designed and tested for NAS systems with up to 24 bays, WD Red Pro hard drives have undergone extensive compatibility testing with ASUSTOR and have extensive integration with their technologies to provides the flexibility and security needed to store and share valuable data and business files.

ASUSTOR’s Drivestor 4 Pro and Western Digital 10 TB* WD Red Plus – A Winning Combination

ADM’s easy-to-use features, combined with the advantages of Western Digital's high-capacity hard drives, allow Regis and Kahran to quickly upload all files from their computers to their Drivestor 4 Pro and also back up their iMac using Time Machine. Their current external hard drive can also be used as a secondary backup by connecting it to the NAS and having the NAS automatically dump the information. For an offsite backup, cloud backup services used in DataSync Center and Cloud Backup Center help keep data safe from natural disasters and ransomware without reliance on internet stability. The Drivestor 4 Pro intelligently helps Regis and Kahran to complete all of their backups easily and efficiently, which greatly reduces their workload.

Since Regis and Kahran backed up all their projects over the years to their NAS, they can connect to their NAS in different parts of the world, back up new projects or easily find past projects. They no longer have to worry about accidentally losing external hard drives because now they can access their data from both within and outside the office. Regis and Kahran can also create share links of specific files or folders anytime, anywhere to share files with partners and customers. Regis and Kahran also liked the ability to easily add users and set specific permissions so that other people can directly access specific folders on the NAS, read, edit and upload files to greatly improve the efficiency of collaborative work while maintaining the privacy of Regis and Kahran’s data.

In the future, in response to the increasing number of projects, they plan to use ASUSTOR's MyArchive to flexibly add new archive drives to store projects that are no longer needed in a safe place.

NAS storage doesn’t have to be so complicated. By combining ASUSTOR’s innovative Lockerstor NAS storage solutions with WD Red® Pro HDDs, CreativeSouls was able to achieve scalable, reliable, high performance capacity for their NAS environment easily and affordably. NAS systems loaded with generic HDDs may not have been designed and tested to handle the demands of today’s data growth. ASUSTOR and Western Digital together helped modernize their NAS systems to handle the most demanding of environments and highest workloads with a powerful data storage and management solution.

The ASUSTOR Drivestor 4 Pro and Western Digital’s 10 TB* WD Red® Plus hard drives perfectly combine the advantages and convenience of external hard drives, cloud storage and file sharing apps, thus helping Regis and Kahran remove inconveniences and tedious processes so that they can spend more time and energy on what they love the most, photography.

ASUSTOR NAS Advantages

  • MyArchive archive drives for safe and convenient long-term storage
  • EZ Connect Easy remote access
  • DataSync Center – Easy cloud backups
  • USB one-touch backups
  • ASUSTOR College – Easy-to-follow NAS tutorials
  • Supports Time Machine for macOS devices
  • Supports scheduled backups
  • Intuitive UI
  • Reliable and stable hardware and software
  • Easily able to control user access with user accounts, permissions and share links.

*1GB = 1 billion bytes and 1TB = 1 trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less depending on operating environment.
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