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| Looney4Clooney |
Was wandering what sort of speed one could get from this type of setup and how much it would cost for different methods
Right now, i have a simple gigabit with cat6 cables. The drives i have set up are giving me 80 m/s. I know there are pciex cards you can get that connect to servers with some for of optic cable but not sure if it would be over kill.
Right now i have everything local and on NAS. But i see in the future a move to a more centralized storage that is more redundant and was wondering what most people do.
Also the data is being streamed for audio purposes. |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
Was wandering what sort of speed one could get from this type of setup and how much it would cost for different methods
Right now, i have a simple gigabit with cat6 cables. The drives i have set up are giving me 80 m/s. I know there are pciex cards you can get that connect to servers with some for of optic cable but not sure if it would be over kill.
Right now i have everything local and on NAS. But i see in the future a move to a more centralized storage that is more redundant and was wondering what most people do.
Also the data is being streamed for audio purposes. |
80m/s really is pretty good for bog standard NAS over gigabit.
However, if you want to go faster, it really depend how deep down the rabbit hole you want to go....
If you really want to get speed then you need to go 10gbit ethernet and the easiest way of doing it is either 10gigE controller going to a 10gigE NAS drive(s) but it's going to get costly. like $5-10k costly. It will be damn fast but it's a lot of money just to essentially have a multiaccces version of a thunderbolt drive.
You could go turbo NAS by qnap which is a pretty simple but the speeds vary upon application and there's very little about small audio file sustain speeds.
Don't go fibre. There's actually no speed advantage at your level (i.e. you don't need wideband server access for huge companies) and it;s more about long cable runs as most copper cable installations for critical data bandwidths are limited to 30 meters or so.
IMO, I would wait until there are some real SATA3 NAS raid 5 array options, and better still, see what happens with thunderbolt over the next few months.
What you're looking for is a thunderbolt NAS which doesn't really exist yet (not at least one that uses the full capability AFAIK) so the only way to achieve that is 10GigE NAS which is really damn expensive. |
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