In February 2026 we filed a short ingest checklist for newsrooms that still bounce media between laptops and shared NAS boxes over a small office LAN. The note covers cable labelling, stable gateway addresses, and a one-page handoff so editors stop guessing which drive holds the raw clips.

Winter is when temporary kits pile up and names get lazy. A ten-minute ingest ritual — card to labelled folder, checksum or spot-check, then a line in the shared sheet — still prevents more lost mornings than another storage subscription.