dvc9
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- May 2, 2012
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I have built now 7 Freenas based systems that are running at several Video Post Production houses.
One thing I have learned is that you should really consider to buy a keystone solution, either from iXsystems or from other vendors like pixit with their pixstor.
Not kidding, as you must be on master level of storage to manage, and fully utilize the system.
but, putting that aside .
As you are using mixed windows and Mac environments, then you should optimize your build for samba. Drop nfs, and afp.
Do you use Active directory for security, then you also must be sure about how you use ACL’s and ACL parenting will be an pain, if you are used to an symlink strategy, then that should also go.
Regarding your raid setup,
So streaming multiple 4K video for more that 5 editing stations will be pain with those few disks. This is because of IOPS. You should at least have 48 drives, use RaidZ2 and 12 raid groups with 4 drives each. That might give you something... you still need 4TB of L2ARC here you should use 2 mirrored M.2. Drives.
Pump it up with RAM, more than 256GB.
It’s better with more smaller drives than few big ones ^^
Network will not be an issue. But if you have an decent budget, then get a true Mellanox 40 GB card, and get an Arista switch with 40GB interface and 48 Rj45 interfaces. LAG will be an painful experience with video.
Good luck!
But seriously, do consider a fully paired solution with support, or you might find yourself deep down the rabbit hole in some years.
One thing I have learned is that you should really consider to buy a keystone solution, either from iXsystems or from other vendors like pixit with their pixstor.
Not kidding, as you must be on master level of storage to manage, and fully utilize the system.
but, putting that aside .
As you are using mixed windows and Mac environments, then you should optimize your build for samba. Drop nfs, and afp.
Do you use Active directory for security, then you also must be sure about how you use ACL’s and ACL parenting will be an pain, if you are used to an symlink strategy, then that should also go.
Regarding your raid setup,
So streaming multiple 4K video for more that 5 editing stations will be pain with those few disks. This is because of IOPS. You should at least have 48 drives, use RaidZ2 and 12 raid groups with 4 drives each. That might give you something... you still need 4TB of L2ARC here you should use 2 mirrored M.2. Drives.
Pump it up with RAM, more than 256GB.
It’s better with more smaller drives than few big ones ^^
Network will not be an issue. But if you have an decent budget, then get a true Mellanox 40 GB card, and get an Arista switch with 40GB interface and 48 Rj45 interfaces. LAG will be an painful experience with video.
Good luck!
But seriously, do consider a fully paired solution with support, or you might find yourself deep down the rabbit hole in some years.