Fireball81
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Hello,
i use a QNAP TS-2483XU-RP in my post production environment that is coming close to its capacity limits. Therefor, i would like to think about my options for storage expansion. (or buying something new rather) At the moment we have two independent R6 raidsets, one consists of 12x12TB ST12000NM0007 and the other one consists of 12xMG08ACA16TE. The NAS unit is connected over 10GbE (SFP+) to our core switch.
We also have a TrueNAS server as a backup target for our QNAP unit.
As you can probably imagine, we need capacity as much as we need speed for our workflow. There are only 2 editing workstations accessing the storage unit simultaneously but it would be desirable if both editing machines get fast read/write performance to the storage. (thats already a bottleneck with the QNAP appliance)
I was thinking instead of going with a JBOD unit for the QNAP, i might as well consider a DIY TrueNAS server as my 2nd production storage unit.
I guess my question basicially boils down to, how to set up a TrueNAS machine in terms of hardware choice when the goal is high capacity with reasonable performance (at least one workstation should be able to saturate its 10GbE connection to the server)
To give you an example:
What kind of avg read/write performance can i, for example expect from a single raidz2 vdev with 12x18TB Exos X in a TrueNAS server with a decent CPU and at least 64GB of RAM. The pool would consists mostly of large media files. Enough to get decent sequential read/writes that could come close to 10GbE or far from it?
Thank you in advance for your help. :)
i use a QNAP TS-2483XU-RP in my post production environment that is coming close to its capacity limits. Therefor, i would like to think about my options for storage expansion. (or buying something new rather) At the moment we have two independent R6 raidsets, one consists of 12x12TB ST12000NM0007 and the other one consists of 12xMG08ACA16TE. The NAS unit is connected over 10GbE (SFP+) to our core switch.
We also have a TrueNAS server as a backup target for our QNAP unit.
As you can probably imagine, we need capacity as much as we need speed for our workflow. There are only 2 editing workstations accessing the storage unit simultaneously but it would be desirable if both editing machines get fast read/write performance to the storage. (thats already a bottleneck with the QNAP appliance)
I was thinking instead of going with a JBOD unit for the QNAP, i might as well consider a DIY TrueNAS server as my 2nd production storage unit.
I guess my question basicially boils down to, how to set up a TrueNAS machine in terms of hardware choice when the goal is high capacity with reasonable performance (at least one workstation should be able to saturate its 10GbE connection to the server)
To give you an example:
What kind of avg read/write performance can i, for example expect from a single raidz2 vdev with 12x18TB Exos X in a TrueNAS server with a decent CPU and at least 64GB of RAM. The pool would consists mostly of large media files. Enough to get decent sequential read/writes that could come close to 10GbE or far from it?
Thank you in advance for your help. :)