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I operate a business, Cinevate, that designs and manufactures highly innovative tools for filmmakers. As a former IT analyst, I've been experimenting with NAS units, LAN topolology and affordable integrating into typical video and photo editing workflow.Stillmotion is a highly successful studio based out of Toronto, Canada, that is raising the bar for wedding and corporate video world wide.  With an award winning team of both photographers and cinematographers (sponsored by Cinevate, Canon and Steadicam), the team travels worldwide with a pile of equipment including from two to five MacBook Pro laptops.  Once back in their studio, data that was backed up to external drives is often distributed via external flash drives for rough cutting and final processing.  They estimate approximately 25TB now exist on a growing collection of external firewire or USB connected hard drives.  They currently have only wireless connectivity in their studio.  No LAN wiring, switches, servers or NAS units are currently present. Stillmotion is looking for 50TB or so of storage that would be available to each laptop/workstation in their studio.  At any time, they might have from two to six editors who would require access to the collection of video/photo data. They would normally not edit from the storage directly, but rather archive projects there when done with editing on the Mac laptops or workstations. Ideally all 50TB would be backed up offsite.  Their budget is in the $15,000 area to start, keeping in mind that they are prepared to phase in storage beyond 25TB or so as required.