7x18tb Seagate exos. Planning to do 3 mirrored vdevs with a hot spare. 2x500gb nvme ssd for slog 2x500gb nvme for boot 2x2.6ghz 16-core v4 xeon 512gb ecc 2400mhz memory Hba is an lsi 9300-16i Nvme drives will be in pcie 3.0 x16 slots using Sabrent adapters Motherboard is a supermicro x10dri-t…

As @Kawom says - whats your use case.

All great points and questions, thank you! Primary use case is same as you - video editing across the wire. Also storing nvr footage, and backups from mobile devices. The slog is because I plan to do iscsi (or nfs if possible?) for shared storage for a proxmox cluster at some point. I know the b…

Seems fine then. Performance wise it may make a difference if you are handling single, big video files or single frame image sequences. Large video files will perform nicely over 10GbE, whereas image sequences tend to be punished by protocol overhead, at least with SMB shares. Regarding resiliency …

Three HDD mirrors will not make full use of a 10G link, if that’s a consideration. Backups, NVR and long term storage would do fine on a raidz2. Capacity allowing, video editing on the NAS would do better on NVMe.

Yes, the bulk of the editing will be large video files ranging from 4gb-25gb. I do have a rackmount UPS already, forgot to mention that. I am pretty interested in snapshots. One of the guys that works for me has a small truenas at his place and says the snapshots integrate with windows shadow copi…

My hope is that with so much ram for ARC I’ll get good enough performance to be happy with it. Do you not think this will be the case? I would love to do all the editing on an nvme pool, but creating one of those presently would be cost prohibitive. I may look into it in the future… We’ll see how l…

[image] exx: Do you not think this will be the case? Obviously no. ARC is no magic: Files only get there for read after being required a few times… and you can only fit as much as RAM allows. Writes go to the pool anyway. If it would take 8 TB drives to make a NVMe pool for editing, a “mere”…

8tb drives would be needed to make a pool large enough to actually store everything. The file sets I work with are 4-25gb, so I thought perhaps when I start working with a file it might get cached up while I’m using it? I’m obviously not expecting the entire pool to be stored in ram. I’m not sure w…

Regarding performance: it comes down to what your expectations are. A NAS is not a local disk and never will behave like one because of several factors, protocol overhead has proven to have the highest impact by far on performance difference for us between our truenas server and local disk space. As…

Wow, that’s great info. My source footage is also 4k, and I also export 1080p projects, but from premiere pro. One thing I did get from your long response is a fantastic idea though, and one that I think I will do - put all my resource stuff (music, foley, reusable b-roll, etc) on either sata ssd o…

Critique my parts list for my first build?

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Nah, it’s fine!

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Critique my parts list for my first build?

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