Greetings to members of the forum!!
We are a NGO looking to create a File Server to store media files as well as create a low latency, high throughput workspace for the video editors and content creators.
Currently we have frozen on the following specs :
Dual socket server with 16 core, 32 thread CPUs
256 GB RAM
60 Bay WD JBOD with 36 x 18 TB SAS 7200rpm HDDs
NIC : Need suggestions for 40/100 GbE
Most clients are Windows workstations and PCs and a couple of 2013 Mac Pros
The server will keep 1 copy of our entire media archive (approx 230 TB and growing) and about 80-100 TB of working data. There are 24 drive slots free in the JBOD for future growth.
What we need to figure out is how do we spec out L2ARC to help with boosting performance for editing and ingest teams. Editors work on current video projects and ingest team works no digitizing tape and organizing data before ingesting to our asset management solution which will then keep a copy on this file server as well as no LTO tape in a separate library.
We plan to have a server attached to this JBOD with 24 NVME drive bays (PCIe Gen 4). With the new Intel PCIe Gen 4 SSDs launching what would be a good idea - 4/8 x 3.84/7.68 TB P5510 NVME SSDs? Or some combination of Optane P5800X SSDs?
What sort of NIC can we use? Higher bandwidth is preferred, like 40/100 GbE, we have a 40 GbE port switch and clients are connected to 10GbE ports, 100 GbE is keeping future network upgrade in mind.
Also are AMD Epyc CPUs ok for ZFS storage implementation? Any loss of performance/functionality/gotchas when it comes to EPYC? Thing is that even with the new Ice Lake CPUs from Intel, AMD is just so far ahead in price to performance and features that its hard to overlook..
Grateful to the community for your time and advice!
We are a NGO looking to create a File Server to store media files as well as create a low latency, high throughput workspace for the video editors and content creators.
Currently we have frozen on the following specs :
Dual socket server with 16 core, 32 thread CPUs
256 GB RAM
60 Bay WD JBOD with 36 x 18 TB SAS 7200rpm HDDs
NIC : Need suggestions for 40/100 GbE
Most clients are Windows workstations and PCs and a couple of 2013 Mac Pros
The server will keep 1 copy of our entire media archive (approx 230 TB and growing) and about 80-100 TB of working data. There are 24 drive slots free in the JBOD for future growth.
What we need to figure out is how do we spec out L2ARC to help with boosting performance for editing and ingest teams. Editors work on current video projects and ingest team works no digitizing tape and organizing data before ingesting to our asset management solution which will then keep a copy on this file server as well as no LTO tape in a separate library.
We plan to have a server attached to this JBOD with 24 NVME drive bays (PCIe Gen 4). With the new Intel PCIe Gen 4 SSDs launching what would be a good idea - 4/8 x 3.84/7.68 TB P5510 NVME SSDs? Or some combination of Optane P5800X SSDs?
What sort of NIC can we use? Higher bandwidth is preferred, like 40/100 GbE, we have a 40 GbE port switch and clients are connected to 10GbE ports, 100 GbE is keeping future network upgrade in mind.
Also are AMD Epyc CPUs ok for ZFS storage implementation? Any loss of performance/functionality/gotchas when it comes to EPYC? Thing is that even with the new Ice Lake CPUs from Intel, AMD is just so far ahead in price to performance and features that its hard to overlook..
Grateful to the community for your time and advice!