Jon Tansey
Cadet
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- May 14, 2012
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Hi
I'm researching a NAS box for work to replace our current WD mybook which was always a temporary measure and looking for some advice.
Our main requirement is speed, we work with a lot of large-ish files (mainly psds and illustrator documents in excess of 100MB) the combination of slow file transfers and the time it takes for the directory listing to appear in finder/explorer is really quite annoying so we want to speed that up!
We're probably after about 6-8 TB of storage and there'll be about 12 people using the file system.
Reading around I've manage to come up with a few loose requirements on specs but looking for some advice on specific hardware and configuration - cost isn't too much of an issue as provided I can justify it to my boss I can get what ever is required. Power draw and noise also aren't an issue as we're really after performance.
MOBO + CPU:
1155 socket i3 not sure on model
6xSATA
8 or 16GB of DDR3 RAM
maybe overkill but building for performance
any thoughts or recommendations greatly appreciated!
HDDs:
looking at 4 or 5 2TB drives @ 7200rpm
probably RAIDz1 as we have a robust cloud backup of all our data so failure wouldn't be catastrophic but would be nice not to grind to a halt if 1 drive fails
Am i right in thinking we should avoid green drives?
Will also try and spread manufacturers to avoid failures
Will stick it all in a decent case with a nice PSU and a UPS.
Thanks for reading and any advice on HDDs or CPU/MOBO combos would be greatly appreciated!
I'm researching a NAS box for work to replace our current WD mybook which was always a temporary measure and looking for some advice.
Our main requirement is speed, we work with a lot of large-ish files (mainly psds and illustrator documents in excess of 100MB) the combination of slow file transfers and the time it takes for the directory listing to appear in finder/explorer is really quite annoying so we want to speed that up!
We're probably after about 6-8 TB of storage and there'll be about 12 people using the file system.
Reading around I've manage to come up with a few loose requirements on specs but looking for some advice on specific hardware and configuration - cost isn't too much of an issue as provided I can justify it to my boss I can get what ever is required. Power draw and noise also aren't an issue as we're really after performance.
MOBO + CPU:
1155 socket i3 not sure on model
6xSATA
8 or 16GB of DDR3 RAM
maybe overkill but building for performance
any thoughts or recommendations greatly appreciated!
HDDs:
looking at 4 or 5 2TB drives @ 7200rpm
probably RAIDz1 as we have a robust cloud backup of all our data so failure wouldn't be catastrophic but would be nice not to grind to a halt if 1 drive fails
Am i right in thinking we should avoid green drives?
Will also try and spread manufacturers to avoid failures
Will stick it all in a decent case with a nice PSU and a UPS.
Thanks for reading and any advice on HDDs or CPU/MOBO combos would be greatly appreciated!