G'day all,
I've now spent the last couple of weeks pouring over the site and reading as much as I can. It's great! A wealth of info and clearly some very helpful people around which is definitely reassuring as this will be my first foray into building a home NAS!
I’ve flipped back and forth on my desired build many times but have made the sensible and recommended decision to start small. I’m going to buy a few of the basic things, play around installing FreeNAS with some spare HDDs I’ve got lying around, replacing disks, rebuilding etc and then if I am happy (I’m pretty sure I will be) and if I think I can manage it ongoing (some of it seems a bit daunting at the moment but I’m a quick learner) then I’ll pull the trigger on the rest.
Until that point, my first question for the brains trust, is it possible to edit 4k videos in Final Cut Pro from my MacBook Pro on FreeNAS (ie. store the raw video files on the FreeNAS machine and point to them)? Am I dreaming or is this possible? If so, how would you suggest and what would impact it (ie. Network, CPU, RAM)? Would I setup a separate vdev of striped disks? I would have the original footage backed up elsewhere so it’s not a problem if I lose the data. My concern is, would it be fast enough. I’m only looking at SuperMicro boards with 2x GbE if that helps. If it's not possible it's not the end of the world. I can come up with another solution. Just need to know whether to leave it on the wishlist or cross it off as that will help determine the build. Thanks in advance!
Cheers,
Taz
I've now spent the last couple of weeks pouring over the site and reading as much as I can. It's great! A wealth of info and clearly some very helpful people around which is definitely reassuring as this will be my first foray into building a home NAS!
I’ve flipped back and forth on my desired build many times but have made the sensible and recommended decision to start small. I’m going to buy a few of the basic things, play around installing FreeNAS with some spare HDDs I’ve got lying around, replacing disks, rebuilding etc and then if I am happy (I’m pretty sure I will be) and if I think I can manage it ongoing (some of it seems a bit daunting at the moment but I’m a quick learner) then I’ll pull the trigger on the rest.
Until that point, my first question for the brains trust, is it possible to edit 4k videos in Final Cut Pro from my MacBook Pro on FreeNAS (ie. store the raw video files on the FreeNAS machine and point to them)? Am I dreaming or is this possible? If so, how would you suggest and what would impact it (ie. Network, CPU, RAM)? Would I setup a separate vdev of striped disks? I would have the original footage backed up elsewhere so it’s not a problem if I lose the data. My concern is, would it be fast enough. I’m only looking at SuperMicro boards with 2x GbE if that helps. If it's not possible it's not the end of the world. I can come up with another solution. Just need to know whether to leave it on the wishlist or cross it off as that will help determine the build. Thanks in advance!
Cheers,
Taz