I'm a film-maker and I've been using one of pic-related units with 5x 10TB drives in it.
The fan noise is annoying and in general I'm not a fan of mechanical drives. My PC has 4 SSDs in it and no HDD.
So my question is, do any of you use an external storage with SSDs in it?
Would be great if I can have around 10 to 12 TB SSD storage to work with, and use what I already have just as a backup storage. Black Friday is coming so this is my chance to find and buy a solution.
It barely makes a difference for video editing, actually. Videos are overall very much big linear chunks of data.
Isaac King
HDD (maybe in RAID) are fine for fast linear throughput.
And there is obviously faster networking gear, but I don't necessarily think that's better with your skills than just putting the drives into your desktop PC and use external storage like on such a NAS to only store past projects or something.
Kayden Clark
>Videos are overall very much big linear chunks of data.
Back in Win XP days, I used to Defrag my drives every once in a while. It showed that the blocks of data would get messy over time.
How does that work now? The Drobo is like 25TB full already. Is there anyway that I can minimize delay for data-access?
m.2 is a physical standard that can support sata or pcie
Videos are very much linear chunks of data, I would recommend saving your projects a bit more often on your workstation and keeping the source footage on the NAS.
Angel Sanders
But his PC can still only pull 1Gb, so it won't matter.
Carter Collins
install intel I350 2 or 4 port lan card into PC and make link aggregation. (you will need managable switch like Unifi or something) I ordered 2port version from China. It's probably fake but if it works ok than it doesn't matter
Levi Gray
Getting two 10 Gbps network cards (one for the storage box and one for his PC) would probably be a better bang for the buck and easier to set up.