External SSD Storage

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.

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1 TB SSDs are very close to crossing the $100 point

If you just want it to be quiet then buy the SSDs, but don't expect better performance.

>I'm a film-maker
>Porn

>but don't expect better performance.

What? Really?

In CrystalDiskMark benchmark I get very low 4KiB numbers.

Isn't it the case that SSDs have a much higher random access speed?

That makes a big difference in video-editing, no?

You won't be able to take advantage of the speed even with gigabit ethernet. It will bottleneck the SSDs.

Continue using HDD and install a quieter fan / install the drives in a fanless machine.

Black friday isn't going to help, BTW.

Did not know that. Wow.

So the only ways to have very fast speed for storage are SATA, PCIe and m.2?

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Even with 10GBE you will bottleneck.

It barely makes a difference for video editing, actually. Videos are overall very much big linear chunks of data.

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.

>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?

>mfw I'm really ignorant about this subject

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Thanks for the info

4 port LAN in dynamic link aggregation will gives 4G

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You can use 2.5 drives which are almost inaudible.

This must be the most important topic you could possibility think of.

or install SFP card with 20GB link aggregation
into Synology NAS and similar card into PC

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yeah, defragment the enclosure.

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.

But his PC can still only pull 1Gb, so it won't matter.

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

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.