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LTO Drive, NAS & RAID Rentals — rented, sold, and serviced

LTO drives, production HDD/SSD, and RAID — in stock and ready to ship. MSG works with manufacturers such as SNS, WD/G-DRIVE, Glyph, Symply, OWC, SanDisk, and more. Plus LTO transfer and hard drive testing. Don't see what you need? Just ask.

Glyph RAID storage next to an editing workstation
Rentals

Rent what you need, return it when you wrap

Tell MSG about your project and we'll recommend the right drives, RAID, or NAS for it — ready for local Los Angeles productions and nationwide.

LTO-7, LTO-8, and LTO-9 tape drive rental units, Thunderbolt 3, Apple and Intel certified — Los Angeles and nationwide

LTO Drives

LTO-7 / LTO-8 / LTO-9

Standalone desktop drives from leading manufacturers such as Symply, OWC and mLogic — Thunderbolt 3, Apple & Intel certified.

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Glyph Blackbox PRO RAID desktop drive

Production Drives

Single-bay HDD & SSD

Single-bay HDD and SSD hard drive rentals, ready as shuttle drives for exchanging verified footage between set, DIT, and post.

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RAID storage

RAID & Shared Storage

2-bay to 8-bay, plus SNS EVO NAS

Editorial RAID and small shared-storage NAS, sized to your cutting room.

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Buy

Drives, RAID, and tape from the brands you already trust

Storage for creative professionals, educators, healthcare providers, houses of worship, government agencies, and more. Don't see your brand listed? Just ask MSG.

NAS & shared storage RAID / multi-bay Single drives SSD LTO Drives LTO tape media Memory Cards Cases & Accessories
Studio Network Solutions
Glyph Production Technologies
SYMPLY
OWC
Western Digital / G-DRIVE
HP LTO tape
FUJIFILM LTO tape
SanDisk
Quantum
Apricorn
Lexar
Sony
Samsung
Turtle Case
Pelican Case
Shared Storage

NAS & shared storage for editing teams

Network-attached storage (NAS) centralizes your files on one system that multiple users and devices access over a standard network connection — the shared-storage solution businesses and production studios across Los Angeles run on.

QNAP

For power users who want more control

Broad CPU options and PCIe expansion for teams that want to configure the system around their workflow.

Synology

One of the easiest systems to hand to your team

One of the most established names in NAS, built around DSM — reliable and easy to manage without a dedicated IT person.

UGREEN

The newest name in shared storage

Current-generation processors and multi-gig networking built in — modern specs in a compact system.

Growing or Inherited a NAS?

You don't have to know the right question. Just start here.

A team that just doubled in size. A NAS nobody on staff actually set up. A few hundred terabytes of footage with no way to search it. These are the three questions we hear most from production and post teams — find yours.

The question
“How do we get more out of the NAS we already have?”

NAS Health Check & Workflow Assessment

Whether you inherited it or your team outgrew it, we look at what's actually running today — capacity, network speed, how your editors use it — and tell you straight whether it needs an upgrade, an expansion, or a replacement.

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The question
“We just found hundreds of TBs of untagged footage — now what?”

Media Tagging & Asset Management

Untagged, unsearchable footage slows down every edit. We'll match you with the right metadata and asset-management solution for your workflow — including SNS's ShareBrowser — so your team finds a shot by name, date, or keyword instead of hunting through folders.

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The question
“We need to add something to our current setup — but what?”

Storage Expansion Consulting

More bays, a faster cache tier, a second NAS, more drives — we'll tell you exactly what your existing hardware needs next, not just sell you more of it.

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RAID capacity calculator

Pick a bay count, add your drives, and see usable capacity before you rent or buy from MSG.

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Services

Beyond drives

Support from MSG that goes beyond the drive itself.

LTO Transfer

Transfer data between LTO tape and hard drive, in either direction — tape to drive or drive to tape. If your content is sitting on a NAS, we'll ship you a shuttle drive: load it up and send it back to us.

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Hard Drive Testing

Verify drive health before it goes back into rotation or into long-term archive at MSG.

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FAQ

Questions we hear a lot

Quick answers before you request a quote. Don't see yours? Just ask.

What's the best way to back up production footage — hard drive or LTO tape?

For active projects, a hard drive is faster and easier. For long-term archive, LTO tape is more reliable — no moving parts touching your data day to day, and rated for 15 to 30 years of shelf life. Most teams use both: drives for what they're working on now, tape for what they're keeping.

Do you rent hard drives, or just LTO tape drives?

Both. MSG rents production hard drives (HDD/SSD), RAID systems, and LTO tape drives — short-term or long-term, in Los Angeles and nationwide.

How does LTO drive rental work?

Tell us your project — how much footage, what format, your deadline — and we match you with the right LTO-7, LTO-8, or LTO-9 drive. It ships ready to use, Thunderbolt 3, Apple and Intel certified, and you send it back when you wrap.

Can you transfer footage from LTO tape to a hard drive, or the other way around?

Yes — tape to drive or drive to tape, either direction. If your content is sitting on a NAS, we'll ship you a shuttle drive so you can load it up and send it back to us.

Do you work with productions outside Los Angeles?

Yes. MSG ships rentals and handles transfers nationwide, with will-call pickup available in Los Angeles. Need to rent, buy, get a NAS health check, or transfer footage off tape? All of it — yes. Tell us what you're working on and we'll take it from there.

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