alex2928

Thank you for the reply. I certainly like the idea of having a dedicated file server for everything. I'm not as concerned with VMs so FreeNAS may very well be the option to go with. I'd rather stay away from synology or QNAP units after my experiences with them before. I guess I need to decide if the increased cost for ECC ram is worth it. Since this is a box that will contain everything I'd like to minimize risk (I have a backup solution but it would take days to retrieve my data). I'll keep researching!

Just watched LTT's budget 4K video editing NAS build and I'm hoping I can get some help regarding a few things. I am running out of space on my local storage and want to deploy something for storage and online video editing, primarily for raw video (blackmagic 12:1, R3D 12:1, data rates 90 - 150 MB/s depending on frame rate). I am currently the only one who will be using it and do have a 10 Gb network in place. Hardware: 4790k i7 32GB DDR3 RAM Gigabyte Ultra Durable MB Aquantia 10G NIC Ebay HBAs 10X Seagate Ironwolf 10TB disks 2X 256 GB SSDs My biggest concern is UnRAID. I don't necessarily care about the write penalty, but will care if my reads aren't at least in the 250 MB/s range. It looked like Linus was getting solid numbers in the video, but I think there's a gotcha... Am I correct in assuming that, since UnRAID doesn't stripe data, it's likely that the 300-350 MB/s Linus was seeing was because two clients were pulling off of two separate drives (150-200 MB/s per drive x 2)? In my case I'm the only client, so I don't really want to build something that just ends up performing like a massive capacity single spinning disk. Am I missing something regarding unRAID read performance? The other popular alternative I'm seeing others recommend is FreeNAS, but Linus' comments in the video about bad FreeNAS experiences have me worried. I've never deployed a FreeNAS system and need to depend on whatever solution I come up with, as this is for my freelance work. I would also need to buy a new MB, CPU, and RAM to support ECC.... Does anyone have experience deploying a ZFS based system who can give me some pointers? If I do go with ZFS, I could make 3 Raidz1 vdevs and have a hot spare, and that way if I want to expand I'd just need to buy 3 additional drives (...right?) To me it seems like the LTT video was targeted at a VERY niche demographic: people who shoot on very consumer-grade cameras, have multiple editors, and need insane amounts of storage. I'm a single-user editing prosumer/pro level footage, and need a fair amount of space. Does it even make sense for me to build a NAS as opposed to just buying a fatty thunderbolt 3 raid enclosure? Or just raiding like 5 2TB SSDs to edit each project on and building an UnRAID box as archival storage? Sorry for the long post, just hoping someone here has experience with a similar use-case!