Building a 10GbE NAS for Video Editing

[Enquiries]

Hi, I've been watching your videos the last couple of days to learn about NAS systems and checked out your website and thought I just give it a try.

FOLLOWING SCENARIO

Goal & the setup will be:
1 PC for gaming only
1 PC for streaming & recording only
1 PC for cutting, rendering and uploading videos only (plan: a cutter can access this PC even online via AnyDesk and create and upload videos while the streaming PC still can be used to stream and record new footage at the same time)

Th recording PC only has only a single 2.5GbE port, but we want to buy an Intel X550-T2 PCIe (or should we get something different?) card for this PC so it has 10GbE. The gaming & editing PC both already have an extra 10GbE port on the IO panel at the back of their motherboard.

The recorded footage going to be up to 6-10 hour long (a full Twitch livestream) and around 1 TB huge 1440p or 4K video files (H.264 codec) and recorded with OBS Studio.

We don't want to stockpile footage forever so 10-20 TB would more than enough for the NAS. The raw footage will be deleted after the finished video has been uploaded to the YouTube channel. So speed when accessing/transferring the files is the most important part and especially a smooth playback for video editing. So just as an example on how we think: If 10 TB can be faster than 20 TB we would rather take 10 TB storage. But 10 TB is the minimum on storage space.

Internet Bandwith:
1000 GBit/s Download
400 Mbit/s Upload
Ping: 1ms

To summarize this up:
We want to record with OBS Studio up to 1TB huge and 10 hours long 1440p/4K (H.264) with one PC directly to the NAS server and access this footage as fast possible (1025MB/s with 10GbE?) from a second editing and rendering workstation. 10 TB of storage space is enough. 20 TB would be nice, but not necessary if 10 TB are faster or so. The budget is basically unlimited, but we don't want to spend more on what we need.

Thanks for any advice. I really appreciate it.

Best wishes

[TribalHound]

With that requirement you'll be looking at a minimum 6 bay NAS

Bays 1 & 2 with a RAID1 1TB SSD configuration for the system.
Definitely going to need that 10GBe port (standard or optional), or PCIe slots to add 10GBe or pair of 5GBe's
Another PCIe slot for a pair of SSDs for read / write caching - a couple of WD Red SN700's in 500GB / 1TB should be enough - make sure there's extra cooling.
Then if you're 6 bay add 4x10TB (or larger) WD Red Pros in a Raid 10 should give you some pretty nifty speeds & 20TB (or larger) capacity.
If you're 8 bay, you could shrink those down to just what you need for working files and then add a final Raid1 pair for your storage, maybe 2x16TB for a little head room.

Should be able to keep up with your multiple PCs potentially accessing all at the same time, plus will more than keep up with your internet speeds.

Oh yes - you need 'a box' to put this in.
Realistically there's only 3 choices (all QNAP) :
TVS-hx88X (12 or 16 disc)
TVS-x72X (or XT if you need thunderbolt 3) (6 or 8 disc)
TVS-hx74 (6 or 8 disc)

If you've regularly got a 1TB file to transfer and work with, that 10GBe will make all the difference, just make sure any switches / cabling can keep up. If it's multiple smaller files, you could get away with link aggregation with 4x 2.5GBe or 2x 5GBe.

Hope this helps !!