Hey everyone!
I've spent many days reading about FreeNAS, different configurations, hardware suggestions and requirements etc. After all this reading I am pretty certain that FreeNAS is the way to go for what I need.
Anyways - I am running small production and postproduction company in Croatia. We have one grading and one editing bay. We will probably add another assistant editors workstation by the 06/2019. Our grading station is custom built PC with 10gbe (Intel X550), and editing station is trashcan Mac Pro with 2x gigabit ethernet. My plan is to upgrade Mac to 10Gbe.
I need NAS as central storage for grading, editing and transcoding video files. During the day editing station will mostly be used with local storage, and when not used for editing it will be rendering DCPs, transcoding video files etc. I would like to be able to read and write to NAS at the same time. Next to that I would like to have grading station that can read from NAS at the same time... Is this too much to ask from single FreeNAS?
I plan to use this hardware:
8x 6TB Seagate IronWolf in RAIDz2
Supermicro MBD-X11SSH-CTF-O
Xeon E3-1225 v6
32GB ECC RAM
Fractal Design Node 804
450W power supply
+ small Synology with 2x 10TB mirrored drives for backing up master files and uploading to cloud backup
+ 10gbe switch, probably popular Netgear unmanaged one...
What kind of performance I can expect from 8x 6TB IronWolfs in RAIDz2? What happens when I have reading and writing at the same time? Would I be better of with striped 2x RAIDz1 (4x 6TB)?
Thank you all in advance for any help!
I've spent many days reading about FreeNAS, different configurations, hardware suggestions and requirements etc. After all this reading I am pretty certain that FreeNAS is the way to go for what I need.
Anyways - I am running small production and postproduction company in Croatia. We have one grading and one editing bay. We will probably add another assistant editors workstation by the 06/2019. Our grading station is custom built PC with 10gbe (Intel X550), and editing station is trashcan Mac Pro with 2x gigabit ethernet. My plan is to upgrade Mac to 10Gbe.
I need NAS as central storage for grading, editing and transcoding video files. During the day editing station will mostly be used with local storage, and when not used for editing it will be rendering DCPs, transcoding video files etc. I would like to be able to read and write to NAS at the same time. Next to that I would like to have grading station that can read from NAS at the same time... Is this too much to ask from single FreeNAS?
I plan to use this hardware:
8x 6TB Seagate IronWolf in RAIDz2
Supermicro MBD-X11SSH-CTF-O
Xeon E3-1225 v6
32GB ECC RAM
Fractal Design Node 804
450W power supply
+ small Synology with 2x 10TB mirrored drives for backing up master files and uploading to cloud backup
+ 10gbe switch, probably popular Netgear unmanaged one...
What kind of performance I can expect from 8x 6TB IronWolfs in RAIDz2? What happens when I have reading and writing at the same time? Would I be better of with striped 2x RAIDz1 (4x 6TB)?
Thank you all in advance for any help!