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Recently, here at work, we've reached near capacity on the server we've been using to store our rendered animation passes for compositing. So it's time to retire this file server, and put him out to pasture, as a back up server.
This old server had 8 raided drives, totally 5 TB. But these days, since we are doing more and more compositing work, with lots more layers and render elements, our demands for both capacity and file access speed has greatly increased. So we are looking to build a new file server that is robust enough to handle fast file access speeds from multiple computers, and also is scalable enough so we'll be able to add drives as our space requirements increase.
I'm wondering what you pro's are doing these days. Besides simply raiding drives, are there recommendations people would make? I suppose you could raid together a series of SSD these days, and get some crazy fast file access, if you wanted to spend a bucket of money.
Any suggestions?
This old server had 8 raided drives, totally 5 TB. But these days, since we are doing more and more compositing work, with lots more layers and render elements, our demands for both capacity and file access speed has greatly increased. So we are looking to build a new file server that is robust enough to handle fast file access speeds from multiple computers, and also is scalable enough so we'll be able to add drives as our space requirements increase.
I'm wondering what you pro's are doing these days. Besides simply raiding drives, are there recommendations people would make? I suppose you could raid together a series of SSD these days, and get some crazy fast file access, if you wanted to spend a bucket of money.
Any suggestions?
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