Suggestions for a 16 bay rackmount NAS?

[Steve Grappone]

I’m not as you’d call a qnap or “pro-sumor” user. My official role is to design video workflows and build their storage to a specific task.

I will always try to help anyway. If you added the M.2 NVMe drives and the system is ZFS it’s not going to help as much as you’d think.

Another problem with cache when it comes to video is that you’re typically reading, so if the data hasn’t been accessed it won’t be in your cache.

I’m not sure with the unit that you’re looking at but a good alternative would to have two different data pool.

1.) HDDs for archives and other non-performance data
2.) NVMe for your 4K workloads.

creative.space the company that I work with has developed a hybrid system. You can get up to 288TB (24 12TB drives) and 64TB NVMe (4 NSF-1 16TB each)

The advantages of creative.space is you pay for it as a service not as a device. So they setup the system and they perform preventive maintenance rather than the normal responsive technical support that never seems open when you need them.

Hope this helps.
Steve

[Bob Zelin]

as per AJA Data Calc –
Ultra HD 4K 23.98 ProRes is 66.06 MB/sec

so theoretically, about 27 streams. But I personally never tried this, as the TS-1683XU-RP is a new unit.
But my clients are using it and not complaining.

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com