Budget friendly 8k server workflow NAS

[thomas0909]

Budget (including currency): Discluding Sata drives, 1400£

Country: United Kingdom

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Nas server applications for cloud and local workflow.

Other details.

 

I am planning on building my own server and need it to work with 4k and would be great for 8k workflow too. Been looking at the Intel Xeon chips but not sure what do go for. Do i need a intel arc too for faster h265 decode for proxies ?

 

Will ideally build it in a Fractal Design Define R5 (PC CASE)

Lsi Logic 9201-16i 16port 6gb/S for more sata inputs.

Do i need m2 ssds for catche ?

 

As you can see my build is no where near compleate and would highly appricate some help and guidens

 

Thank you beforehand

 

 

 

prox

 

[Takumidesh]

What do you mean by "8k workflow"?

Watching video? editing video? rendering 8k images? encoding? decoding? Just general 8k resolution?

[thomas0909]

2 hours ago, Takumidesh said:

What do you mean by "8k workflow"?

Watching video? editing video? rendering 8k images? encoding? decoding? Just general 8k resolution?

Being able to stream the 8k media to your timeline on your editing software and work on it.

[brob]

1 hour ago, thomas0909 said:

Being able to stream the 8k media to your timeline on your editing software and work on it.

 

Using the term "stream" is problematic. In a PC context it indicates a continuous flow of data during which playback commences.

 

If I understand correctly, you want an external storage device from which you can load content files into and store from an editor running on a workstation. Is this correct?

[Takumidesh]

4 hours ago, thomas0909 said:

Being able to stream the 8k media to your timeline on your editing software and work on it.

Just FYI, not everyone is a video editor, using domain specific jargon is going to be limiting to how people are able to help you.

For example, I am still not even sure if you are talking about video editing, "8k media", "timeline", and "editing software" all have different meanings in different domains.

[thomas0909]

I can see I have created a little confusion. I am looking to build a server/NAS so that I and my colleges can work locally off and, hopefully, with a 3Gbit internet connection, have remote work too. I'd like it to be able to play media up to 8K via QuickView (i think it's called).The majority of the media I'm working with right now is ProRes 5.9k Raw. So it would be amazing to work straight from the NAS like a storage solution locally, and I assume for remote media playback it needs a GPU to render the large media files. I hope this clarifies a little more.