02-28-2020, 03:37 PM
Hi,
I'm loving the site & the youtube channel! It's invaluable for non-specialists like myself so please keep it up!
I'm looking to consolidate a couple of old DS1812+ (16TB each) along with a pile of external G-Technology hard drives into a new larger NAS.
By rough estimate I currently need approx. 64TB of storage (plus the same as backup) with room to grow into so am looking at 128TB options.
My use case is 3d animation/rendering where the NAS would house everything. I have around 10 render nodes which would be accessing the NAS for source files & saving rendered images to. I plan to connect my editing workstation (HP Z820) directly to the NAS over 10GBe.
So, to my questions:
1. Is there a better option for this than the DS1821+?
2. For backup I plan to run a 2nd DS1821+ for the reason that if the main unit goes down, the backup can just take over. Is this idea reasonable?
3. As I plan to run 2 identical units, is there any downside to using RAID 0? I could do with the extra space & hopefully a bit more speed. Am I missing something here?
4. I've found a good deal for a unit including Seagate Exos x16 disks - would you recommend these disks in my case?
5. From what I've read, the NVMe cache wouldn't really help my use case - is that correct?
Many thanks in advance!
Kind regards
I'm loving the site & the youtube channel! It's invaluable for non-specialists like myself so please keep it up!
I'm looking to consolidate a couple of old DS1812+ (16TB each) along with a pile of external G-Technology hard drives into a new larger NAS.
By rough estimate I currently need approx. 64TB of storage (plus the same as backup) with room to grow into so am looking at 128TB options.
My use case is 3d animation/rendering where the NAS would house everything. I have around 10 render nodes which would be accessing the NAS for source files & saving rendered images to. I plan to connect my editing workstation (HP Z820) directly to the NAS over 10GBe.
So, to my questions:
1. Is there a better option for this than the DS1821+?
2. For backup I plan to run a 2nd DS1821+ for the reason that if the main unit goes down, the backup can just take over. Is this idea reasonable?
3. As I plan to run 2 identical units, is there any downside to using RAID 0? I could do with the extra space & hopefully a bit more speed. Am I missing something here?
4. I've found a good deal for a unit including Seagate Exos x16 disks - would you recommend these disks in my case?
5. From what I've read, the NVMe cache wouldn't really help my use case - is that correct?
Many thanks in advance!
Kind regards