I currently have TrueNAS SCALE box set up as my main NAS. It has a dual Intel Xeon 2597.
I have 8x Spinning drives in RaidZ2.
My daughter is starting to a lot of video editing, and it would be nice if I could make a very fast storage array for her so she can upload the files to NAS and work from there, instead of having to keep them on her local machine.
We do have CAT8 and fiber going from the rack to each room and 10Gbps switch, as well as a 10Gbps NIC on the NAS.
The chassis has a total of 16 bays - 8 are taken up by the spinning rust, and the other 8 can use NVMe and/or SATA. If we figure that we want 20TBish of useable storage at 10Gbps, what would be a good way to do this?
isci or smb is about the same. the diff is over nfs, not on smb.
As for speed… 10gb network is very anemic… 1gig is 100megs and 10g is about 993megs.
just put any ssd sata and you will saturate directly. more than 4 is a max of the port eth.
don’t know about that slow raidz2… look for proper raid5 as a comparative or over synology that are quite good.
His wording is weird, He says that a data SSD will saturate a gigabit port, that is true and a Raid of SATA SSD or even HDD can saturate 10gigabit. and truenas can do cache with its ram so you can hit 10gigabit as long as your ram is larger then the file before going to your drive’s limited speed.
for note:
10gigabit is 1.24 Gigabytes.
1gigabit is 124 megabytes, 1000 megabits.
100megabit is 12.5 megabytes.
(thank you ISP’s for using megabit to trick people into thinking their service is faster then it is.)
also make sure her PC can actually push that much data. her drive, CPU, network card and file types/sizes can determine her ability to push 1 or even 10gigabit.