Proactive SMART drive telemetry, standby-safe spindown preservation, and zero-firewall container recovery built specifically for boutique video post-production storage.
Hardware paired and telemetry verified first. Payment collected only after value is proven.
Native Support for Creative NAS Hardware & Appliances
Hesitant to run background daemons on production video arrays? Test your NAS in 5 seconds with our read-only pre-flight validator before ever creating an account.
=== Pillar Fleet Control :: Pre-Flight Readiness Audit ===
Running non-destructive inspection of local storage bus and runtime...
[•] Host Platform: Linux (x86_64)
[✓] Root Access: Verified (Required for SMART bus pass-through)
[•] Workload Engine: Active (/var/run/docker.sock accessible)
Storage Bus Topology:
[✓] Topology Symlinks: Found (/dev/disk/by-path)
• /dev/sdb -> Samsung SSD 870 (~465 GB)
• /dev/sdc -> Samsung SSD 870 (~465 GB)
• /dev/sdd -> WDC WD60EFAX-68J (~5589 GB)
• /dev/sde -> ST8000VN004-3CP1 (IronWolf) (~7452 GB)
• /dev/sdf -> ST8000VN004-3CP1 (IronWolf) (~7452 GB)
• /dev/nvme0n1 -> Patriot M.2 P310 NVMe (~447 GB)
Outbound Network Connectivity:
[✓] Outbound Fleet API: Connected (HTTPS :443 Handshake verified)
[✓] Firewall Policy: Zero inbound ports or port forwarding required
Audit Complete: 6 media drives detected. System is READY to run Pillar Agent.
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100% Read-Only
POSIX shell audit
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Zero Installs
No files or daemons saved
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Spindown Safe
Never wakes sleeping platters
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Zero Inbound Ports
Outbound HTTPS :443 only
Up and Running in Under 60 Seconds
No git repositories to clone. No Go toolchains to compile. Just a turnkey, automated pairing handshake.
Sign in with Google Workspace or work email via Clerk. Name your studio facility (e.g. “Cutters Chicago”). Your 30-day complimentary trial provisions automatically.
Copy your active pairing command and paste it into Unraid or Linux terminal. Docker automatically pulls the lightweight multi-arch image (~20MB) from GitHub Registry.
The agent registers its cryptographic key and your dashboard immediately flips to show live drive thermals, reallocated sector counts, and Docker containers in real time.
Western Digital Ultrastar 14TB
Western Digital Ultrastar 14TB
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The 3 Fatal Weaknesses of Creative NAS Arrays
Drives rarely fail all at once. They accumulate reallocated sectors over weeks. Pillar alerts your Slack or Discord the minute bad sectors climb or thermals hit 50°C—long before a project drive corrupts.
Generic monitoring tools poll drives blindly, forcibly spinning up sleeping platters 50+ times a day. Pillar respects -n standby to preserve drive lifespans and keep bays cool.
When an ingestion script or proxy container freezes at 2 AM, don't connect to a sluggish VPN or terminal. One-click container restarts travel down our outbound control channel without opening a single router port.
In post-production, swapping 12TB drives for 22TB drives happens because 6K/8K RAW demands it—not because your team grew. We charge by connected appliances and operational capabilities, never punishing you for storage growth.
For boutique commercial post houses
Standard rate: $349/mo after pilot spots fill.
No credit card required to pair hardware.
For growing multi-suite facilities
Billed monthly or annually.
Evaluate live telemetry on up to 4 nodes.
For multi-site commercial production studios
Custom annual agreements & SLAs.
Custom billing, PO invoicing, and security review.
Everything You Need to Know
Video production data grows violently. A 4-week commercial shoot can generate 40TB of 6K/8K camera originals. Charging by terabytes penalizes you for doing your job and creates surprise software upgrades when you swap in larger drives. We price by connected appliances and operational features—your terabytes are always unlimited.
Never. Our collector invokes smartctl with the --nocheck=standby flag. If a drive plater is in low-power sleep mode, the agent skips intrusive polling, records it as standby, and leaves the platters at rest.
No. The agent operates strictly via outbound HTTPS TLS connections over standard port 443 to our control plane. Zero inbound ports are opened on your router. Remote container restart commands are delivered through our secure outbound reverse channel.
You sign up, pair your server, and verify your drive grid in real time without entering a credit card upfront. Once you experience the peace of mind of live disk telemetry, you can lock in your Founding Partner subscription ($199/mo) via Stripe Hosted Checkout. Background disk monitoring and failure alerts are never abruptly killed.
Join the founding cohort of boutique video post-production studios. Pair your server in 60 seconds with zero credit card required.