I already have back ups of our footage but I wanted to use raid 0 to access all of our footage at will. I’m not relying on raid 0 as data integrity just purely for a server situation. I might use raid 5 or 10 but I was more interested being able to access a large amount of footage data at will.
Thanks for your feed back. I would not be opposed to learning Linux Distro but I hoped that using windows would be better since our editing computers already use windows 7 already.
If all you want to use it for is data storage then I would heavily recommend FreeNAS, as all you need to do is install it and then pool all the drives together.
well, this is awkward, you have the avatar i used for a long time along with my name, and using same mobo of my current build!, lol, anyways, i read your posts, but you haven’t stated what the purpose of the server is, will you be doing media editing? will it be used to store home movies, pictures and music?, will it be shared with family? it all depends on what you want to use it for…
Haha, remember those cringy but awesome native American wolf t shirts people used to wear in the 90s that’s what I thought of for some reason.
I just want a server for which editors can access a lot of camera footage if they need to. I would like for them to be able to copy the footage they need to there computers on the network and edit that footage. So my server would need to be a film footage server. They don’t necessarily need to stream the footage to their computers but basically use the server as a footage library, from which then can copy over to there editing computers.
The alternative is literately copying footage to there computers for a WD passport drive which sucks and they should be able to delete footage they not using from there editing computers and then grab footage they do need of the server library.
If you are using Freenas, do NOT set your drive controllers to raid mode and do NOT raid your drives. Let the ZFS file system have full access using HBA mode. HBA is host bus adapter, you can get it(normally, google first) by turning off raid. So getting a raid card is detrimental unless you can switch it to HBA mode.
ZFS has stripe(like raid 0), mirror(like raid 1), raidz(like raid 5), raidz2(like raid 6), and combinations of those array types. Info in the link below- https://calomel.org/zfs_raid_speed_capacity.html