Czech VFX Studio QQ Replaces Aging NAS with Enterprise TrueNAS Infrastructure

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Prague-based production company QQ studio overhauled its failing storage infrastructure in mid-2024 after over 40TB of active project data on an aging QNAP NAS created critical bottlenecks for its 40-plus-member creative team. Cloud migration was ruled out due to the studio's reliance on local workstations handling massive uncompressed video files, making remote storage both impractical and cost-prohibitive. A consultant deployed a Dell PowerEdge server with dual 32-core Intel Xeon processors and 192GB of RAM running Proxmox VE and TrueNAS, replacing the old RAID 1 setup with a ZFS-based storage pool capable of tolerating two simultaneous drive failures without data loss. The legacy QNAP NAS was upgraded and repurposed as an automated secondary backup server housed at a separate physical location, adding geographical redundancy. The new architecture mirrors enterprise setups used by major studios worldwide and was designed to meet the studio's growing project commitments and scaling team demands.

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