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We handle up to 4k res, h264 and we use After Effects as well as 3DMax for some of our video projects. Up to 8 people could be working simultaneously. Does the 2640 v4 not have a 3.4 boost frequency while the 2643 v4 has a 3.7 boost, so is the difference that great, or is the boost not available on all cores? Dual chips is the idea for the long run, though buget is an issue for now, and the 2643 v4 is nearly double the price of the 2640 v4. The server should run nearly 24/7. Downtime at night or on the weekends would be a possibility though, but remote acessibility is a thing that we are considering as well, as to make working from home on the weekends available for our employees. As for Backups, the projects that are not finished and given to the customer yet will be stored on the server as well as on the IMac working on it. Another copy is supposed to be stored and updated every few weeks on HDDs that will go to a remote site. As soon as a project is finished and delivered the copy on the IMacs should be gone. The copy on the server stays as is, and every half year or year we want to catalogue the projects of the year and put it on remote HDDs named after the year and have a safekeeping in that way.

By the way, do I need some sort of Raidcontroller? And do you think a redundant power supply is a must have? Any other safety features I should be thinking about?

Hey, we render Premiere Pro videos ( 4k as well) and Lightroom files after editing. so the whole adobe shabang basically. including encoder and all.

Does it cause any Problems that the Machines accessing the Server will be mostly Macs? Why cant the windows based system not use the ssd in question? Thanks for the Suggestion so far

Thanks, that sounds great for a start I'll surely read up on this. Any comments on the part-list?

Oh totally forgot about that, thank you @Zando Bob

@newgeneral10 : 64 Gigs to start out with. The Mobo can handle up to 1024 Gb but realistically 256 GB would be achievable in the long run, and if we upgrade to a second Xeon E5-2640 v4. But for the start it would be 64 Gigs. How does ProxMox work and have you made any experiences with it?

Hey Dear LTT Community, I'm currently in the midst of planning and then eventually building a new Server for my new job. First of all to the background of the Company I Wwork for. It is a Company focused on making photos and Videos for commercial use and Marketing as well as wedding Photography etc. (Occasional 4k Videos included) It is planned that the Server should on the one Hand be there for Archiving and Storing the Data that comes in as we do shootings, and on the other hand act as a sort of Renderserver to use the power of the Workstation aspect of the Server to help with rendering and editing to free up capacity on the Machines of our Photographers/Videographers, (The overwhelming majority of those work on MAC, so OS X by the way) Here ist the Part list that I thought about assembling: Case: Lian Li PC-343 PSU: Corsair AX 1500i Motherboard: ASUS Z10PE-D16 WS CPU: Intel Xenon E5-2640 v4 GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 RAM: Kingston KVR21R15D4K4/64 SSD: Samsung 960 Evo 1TB HDD: 5x WD RED PRO 8TB CPU-Cooling: Noctua NH-U9DX i4 Case Cooling: 2x Be Quiet Silent Wings 3 120mm Misc: 2x Icy Dock FlexCage MB973SP-1B 3.5 The SSD is supposed to be used as a Cache and for the Operating System. a 10 GBit Ethernet or Thunderbolt via PCI-Express expansion or something similar would be great, but I am not quite sure how to best solve this. How does this sound to you, and what should I best run on the Server? FreeNAS, Unraid,...? All help is really appreciated guys and girls :-) Greetings from Germany