2TB Server for rendering?

[GT740OC]

Hey everybody, I have recently started saying "I might upload videos daily" which now seems like a stupid idea, but I am a man of my word and need help with the cheapest possible specs for a fast, reliable and easy to use server for rendering within 2TB and 10TB what components should I use including the case?

 

Thanks in advance for any help!

[spartaman64]

1 minute ago, GT740OC said:

Hey everybody, I have recently started saying "I might upload videos daily" which now seems like a stupid idea, but I am a man of my word and need help with the cheapest possible specs for a fast, reliable and easy to use server for rendering within 2TB and 10TB what components should I use including the case?

 

Thanks in advance for any help!

have 2tb of space or can render 2tb of video?

[BurblingBarbacoa]

2 minutes ago, GT740OC said:

Hey everybody, I have recently started saying "I might upload videos daily" which now seems like a stupid idea, but I am a man of my word and need help with the cheapest possible specs for a fast, reliable and easy to use server for rendering within 2TB and 10TB what components should I use including the case?

 

Thanks in advance for any help!

I'm kinda in the same situation. I said 2 vids a week but yeah a render server would loosen up my workflow. 

[KezzaMcFezza]

1 minute ago, GT740OC said:

Hey everybody, I have recently started saying "I might upload videos daily" which now seems like a stupid idea, but I am a man of my word and need help with the cheapest possible specs for a fast, reliable and easy to use server for rendering within 2TB and 10TB what components should I use including the case?

 

Thanks in advance for any help!

If you want hard drive recommendations don't use the green drives xD. Use blacks or blues. or reds for if you need a NAS unit.

 

Hope this helps

[GT740OC]

1 minute ago, spartaman64 said:

 

have 2tb of space or can render 2tb of video?

 

It requires 2-10TB of storage, any ideas what other components I should use?

[Moonzy]

Just now, GT740OC said:

It requires 2-10TB of storage, any ideas what other components I should use?

hard drives, lots of em

[GT740OC]

1 minute ago, ProKeero said:

If you want hard drive recommendations don't use the green drives xD. Use blacks or blues. or reds for if you need a NAS unit.

Thanks, what other components (Case, motherboard...) do you recommend for these drives, also what price am I looking at for the whole unit?

[KezzaMcFezza]

Just now, Moonzy said:

hard drives, lots of em

No? just use the 8TB hard drive that seagate has made xD.

[GT740OC]

Just now, Moonzy said:

hard drives, lots of em

And what other components?

[Goodman2265]

Xeons

Buy 2 E5-2670's off eBay, EXTREMELY GOD LIKE CPU for like 70 bucks

[KezzaMcFezza]

Just now, GT740OC said:

Thanks, what other components (Case, motherboard...) do you recommend for these drives, also what price am I looking at for the whole unit?

Try not to spend no more than 400 dollars on this, If you need a case try go for a case with lots of drive bays. I'm really no expert in this stuff but i have had my fair do diligence on hard drives xD. Fucking green drives dieing on me after 2 weeks. 

[GT740OC]

I HAVE GOT TO GO NOW!

 

Thanks for all the help and I will be replying to any late night replies early morning tomorrow (9:30 am Europe/London) Even if you read this, feel free to post any suggestions related to the question, talk tomorrow, thanks!

[BurblingBarbacoa]

5 minutes ago, GT740OC said:

I HAVE GOT TO GO NOW!

 

Thanks for all the help and I will be replying to any late night replies early morning tomorrow (9:30 am Europe/London) Even if you read this, feel free to post any suggestions related to the question, talk tomorrow, thanks!

 Would try and make it small and be as cheap as you can. Here are some reccomendations: 

• For a case maybe look at the node 804. It is small and has a few hard drive bays to spare 
• maybe grab a 120gb SSD for boot and applications and a few WD reds for storage. 
• Any good mITX board should do. 
• Im not really sure for the CPU. Since this will not be a high end rig and rather somthimg to just render video on  wouldn't spend too much. Maybe a i3 6100 or a i5 6400? 
• 16gb of ram probs will be good. Or 8gb. Depends on your budget. 
• If it is going to be running a but then grab some decent cooling. Maybe a Noctua nhl9i for the CPU and some Noctua redux fans for case cooling 
• grab a decent power supply as well if this rig is going to be running a lot. Maybe a Silverstone sfx unit? 
• I reLly don't know if putting a graphics card in for GPU acceleration is worth it. If you do don't spend too much. Maybe a 950 

I've never reccomend for or built a rig like this so take my reccomendations with a grain of salt. Anybody who knows more than me feel free to correct me  

 

hope i helped  

tell me what you think  

[Moonzy]

Just now, GT740OC said:

 

lol im wondering why you want a nas
just build a gaming pc with a ton of storage

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[Basic]

Out of interest what programs are you using for rendering these videos?

 

After Effects, Premiere Pro, Vegas etc?

[GT740OC]

1 minute ago, Basic said:

Out of interest what programs are you using for rendering these videos?

Sony Vegas Pro 11 and a little bit of After Effects here and there, any ideas 4 specs?

[Basic]

Unfortunately not on the specs I am just curious of workflow. Does Vegas allow network rendering? I know AE does.

[GT740OC]

9 hours ago, Basic said:

Does Vegas allow network rendering?

To be honest I don't really know, I will probably be making the full switch to AE soon...

[Omon_Ra]

What is your current editing rig? If it's the one from your other 'What do you think of my specs?' thread, I'd upgrade/build a new main rig rather than worry about a render server. If you're working in AE, more than 8GB of RAM is necessary. I have 32GB in my system; I have to be doing a lot of effects, but it can nearly max out in AE. Upgrade your GPU (I'd wait for Polaris/Pascal). Add more SSD's for your export, cache and render folders. You could even run RAID 0 with some SSD's for your rendering, since data security isn't really of utmost importance. Improve your main rig before adding the complexities of a server to the equation.

[GT740OC]

1 minute ago, Omon_Ra said:

Improve your main rig

Unfortunately I am on a budget of once a year Birthday money (£50-£80 British pounds) and Christmas money (£30-£90 British pounds) so a full upgrade will take a while

[Jarsky]

wait....if this is a rendering/storage rig, why are we making something compact and low power?

If this is for rendering, especially a video a day, you want a beefy CPU. Dual E5-2670's are cheap but dual socket boards are still $300+ so probably have to stick with single CPU - but i'd be going a single E5-2670 with an LGA2011 board and lots of connectors for drives. not some low power ITX rig.

I can easily saturate my 32GB when rendering in Sony Vegas, so memory is good too.....

[GT740OC]

1 minute ago, Jarsky said:

why are we making something compact and low power

Thanks for the help, I am on a very low budget which is why "Low power" is pretty important

[Jarsky]

Then as others have said - i'd upgrade your main rig if possible - you want as much ram & processing cores as you can afford for video editing.

You'll be wasting a lot of $$$ by building a second dedicated machine.

 

What's your current specs/

[Omon_Ra]

Just now, GT740OC said:

Unfortunately I am on a budget of once a year Birthday money (£50-£80 British pounds) and Christmas money (£30-£90 British pounds) so a full upgrade will take a while

 

Trying to build a rendering server on 80-170 Pounds is not going to happen. Get more RAM, SSD's or keep saving for a higher-end GPU for your current rig. When you have all top of the line components in your editing rig and you still can't keep up; then consider a rendering server.

[GT740OC]

1 minute ago, Omon_Ra said:

Get more RAM, SSD's or keep saving for a higher-end GPU

My PC is too old for upgrade to help much I think, I might get a new motherboard, re-use my RAM and get everything else apart from the case new, what do you think of this idea?