2 editors collaborating on one library. SAN?

Hello hive mind!
This seems like a simple question with some relatively complicated answers.

Please forgive me if this seems to have been solved somewhere else. I have searched but either the answers were not relevant to my situation or the solutions offered assumed a higher level of understanding than I possess. I'm not a full time editor, I'm helping somebody out.

We are 2 editors working in the same building on the same network. The footage and all media will be stored on a shared QNAP drive. Each of us is working with the latest version of FCPX. There are 200 very short videos to make and they will need to go through a few iterations, meaning that we will each need to access the media simultaneously, and we will both need access to every project (timeline), though not simultaneously.

This is now me going through what I've discovered while trying to investigate how to do it, so any of this next section may be incorrect. It seems that the missing element is an SAN or Xsan location in which to store the shared libraries, whether the libraries are permanently there or repeatedly saved there for sharing. I don't know how to create an SAN location in the QNAP, if that's what I'm supposed to be doing. I've been through the QNAP interface and I may simply be being stupid but I can't find any way to do it.

Also, is NFS an option/alternative?

If there is another solution I'd love to hear it.

Happy to provide any more info if necessary, but I'm in a real fix and need to get this sorted asap. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Tom

SANs are highly complex and difficult to maintain. I would definitely recommend going the NFS route is much less expensive and easier to manage. Especially since you already have a drive. What sort of connectivity do you have with the QNAP? Are you Gigabit Ethernet, Thunderbolt?

Found this Thunderbolt specific article on setting up NFS on the QNAP. www.qnap.com/i/useng/tutorial/con_show.php?op=showone&cid=180

In your situation, you'll probably want to have two "Working" Libraries, one for each of you. You would then want to have a "Master" Library that contains all of the master footage and projects. You could use the "Master" Library to pass things back and forth. Each Library needs to point it's media to the same external media folder. By "external", I mean outside the Library, not necessarily on another drive.

Hope that helps.