A production storage workflow is only as fast as its slowest stage. Camera media has to be copied and verified, editors need dependable access to originals or proxies, and every connection between the card and shared storage must sustain the required speed.

At IBC 2026, OnAir Solutions toured the OWC stand to see how those stages can work as one connected system. The useful question was not simply, “How fast is this product?” It was, “Will the complete workflow keep moving when the production is under load?”

Start with faster ingest into shared storage

The first demonstration paired OWC Jellyfish Nomad with high-speed ATTO connectivity. It addresses a common production problem: a team returns from a shoot with several cards or drives, but editorial cannot begin until the media reaches dependable shared storage.

OWC demonstrated 25GbE ingest into Jellyfish Nomad. With the right end-to-end path, rushes can be copied directly to shared storage while editors begin working from material already on the system. Ingest and editorial no longer need to be two strictly separate stages.

The network headline is only one part of the design. Sustained performance depends on the source card, reader, workstation interface, network adapter, switch, destination storage and verification process. A 25GbE connection cannot compensate for a slow reader, and fast storage does not remove the need for verified copies and a separate backup strategy.

Jellyfish Media Manager and Connect reduce manual steps

Once media is on shared storage, the next challenge is finding it and moving it into the edit without creating unnecessary duplicates. Jellyfish Media Manager provides browser-based previews, thumbnails, tagging and proxy creation inside the Jellyfish environment.

Jellyfish Connect then links that browser workflow to the desktop and editing applications. The IBC demonstration included Final Cut Pro via FCPXML, with workflows for Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Media Encoder.

This matters because storage performance alone does not make a workflow efficient. If every user has to rebuild file paths, download another copy or manually relink media when they change workstation, the system still creates delay. Connecting media discovery to the tools editors already use removes friction between finding a shot and working with it.

Jellyfish Studio brings shared media to smaller teams

Jellyfish Studio is designed for smaller post-production teams—typically one to four editors—that still need shared access to high-resolution original media. SSD and HDD configurations allow the system to be balanced around capacity, sustained throughput, acoustic requirements and budget.

The correct configuration depends on more than seat count. Codec data rates, multicamera timelines, simultaneous ingest, redundancy, backup, archive and network topology all affect the result. The goal is predictable performance for every user without overspecifying infrastructure the team will not use.

Thunderbolt 5 expands the desktop workflow

OWC's six-port USB4 Hub consolidates everyday workstation connections, while the company's Thunderbolt 5 docks address different display, network and peripheral requirements. Options shown at IBC included the Dual 10GbE Network Dock, the broad-connectivity 11-Port Dock and a Dual HDMI model for straightforward multi-display setups.

For editors using modern laptops as their primary workstation, a dock becomes the connection point between the computer and the wider production environment: displays, networking, storage, card readers and peripherals through one repeatable desk connection.

Bandwidth still needs to be planned. Connected devices share available resources, so display requirements, storage speed, networking and power should be considered together. The right dock is the one that matches the workstation and its real peripherals—not simply the model with the longest specification list.

Portable storage must sustain production loads

Short benchmarks can make many fast SSDs look impressive. Production workloads are different. Large card offloads, backups and high-resolution media transfers place a drive under sustained load. If heat cannot escape, performance may fall as the SSD throttles.

The OWC Express 1M2 uses a substantial heat sink and is available as a preconfigured SSD or a DIY enclosure. OWC Envoy Ultra extends the sustained-performance focus to Thunderbolt 5 in a bus-powered device, with capacities up to 8TB. For crews moving large datasets between locations, predictable transfer time is more useful than a brief peak speed.

From capture media to shared storage

OWC Atlas covers SD, CFexpress Type A and CFexpress Type B media across a range of capacities, including media authorised for supported Blackmagic Design products. The Innergize software layer adds health information, field firmware updates and a sanitise function for supported Atlas media.

Innergize sanitise unrecoverably removes the data and returns supported media to a factory-fresh performance state. That makes the operational sequence important:

Taken together, OWC now reaches across the production storage chain. A project can begin on Atlas capture media, move through a reader and portable storage, ingest into Jellyfish shared storage, and become available directly inside the editing environment.