Hey everyone,
New to the forum but not to building PCs. I'm looking at getting the parts necessary to build a central server for our small media business for members to work from and store projects. So far I have zero experience in building servers and therefore don't exactly know what is fully required for our current workload so pretty much guessing. Currently we actually use several home-style NAS drives which is not ideal at all!
We have a small video department that will be increasingly using 4K footage and ideally we'd like everyone to be able to work from and store files on this server. At the most there will be about 10x voice-over editors (very light audio workload using Reaper along with streaming motion capture footage from the server when necessary), 4 video editors/vfx, 3 sound designers (relatively light audio load unless working with a video) and 2 composers (mainly using locally stored sample libraries on ssds but putting project files on server).
It'd be cool to have at least a few people working at 10GbE speeds.
I'm basically looking for advice to see if I've gone either way overboard or not overboard enough, or that this plan will even work at all?!
Budget would be hopefully under £7000
Here's what I'm looking at: Case https://www.servercase.co.uk/shop/server-cases/rackmount/4u-chassis/4u-server-case-w-24x-35-hot-swappable-satasas-drive-bays-6gbs-minisas-550m-deep-sc-4324s/
Motherboard https://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus-ws-c621e-sage-intel-c621-s-3647-x2-ddr4-sata3-quad-u2-m2-4-way-sli-crossfire-dual-gbe-usb-31-ap?v=c
2x Processors (do I need more powerful?) https://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel-xeon-silver-4108-s3647-skylake-sp-8-cores-16-threads-18ghz-21ghz-turbo-11mb-cache-85w-retail?v=c
2x CPU coolers https://www.scan.co.uk/products/dynatron-b13-intel-s3647-square-ilm-al-cu-4x-direct-contact-heatpipes-60mm-dual-ball-bearing-fan-205?v=c
128gb RAM (need more? less? I always see that servers need loads of ram but unsure why and under what workload) https://www.scan.co.uk/products/32gb-crucial-ddr4-server-memory-module-pc4-17000-(2133mhz)-288-pin-ecc-registered-cl15-12v
Raid card (if need more HDDs down the line) https://www.scan.co.uk/products/16-port-highpoint-rocketraid-2840a-6gb-s-pcie-30-x8-sas-sata-raid-host-bus-adapter?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2OCizcCg2gIV6grTCh32SAtOEAkYASABEgLGsfD_BwE&v=c
Gfx card (if we can't find any spare lying around) https://www.scan.co.uk/products/evga-geforce-gt-1030-sc-passive-low-profile-2gb-gddr5-graphics-card-384-core-1290mhz-gpu-1544mhz-boo?v=c
750w PSU (decided it's probably fine to not use a redundant PSU as surely we can just pick a new one up super easily) https://www.scan.co.uk/products/750w-seasonic-focus-plus-gold-full-modular-80plus-gold-sli-crossfire-single-rail-62a-120mm-fan-atx-p
10GbE switch (maybe x2) https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/26381-netgear-xs708t-100nes/
10GbE nic cards (for our current or future pcs) https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-XG-C100C-PCI-Network-Interface/dp/B071JR2ZW8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522853942&sr=8-1&keywords=asus+xg-c100c&dpID=41OeDfI%2BpRL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
8TB HDDs (however many we need) (worth getting cache SSDs for unraid?) https://www.scan.co.uk/products/8tb-seagate-ironwolf-nas-hard-drive-35-sata-iii-6gb-s-7200rpm-256mb-cache
Unraid for the OS and the idea is to have something like RAID 1 for parity.
Any advice or help would be super appreciated as this would be my first step away from gaming stuff to servers and networking
Cheers
Harry
