[Curt Goodwin]

I’ll email you. Thanks!

[Curt Goodwin]

Thanks Bob!

Lastly, in this set up, do you recommend the Intel X550-T1 or X550-T2, assuming we don’t get the switch (as mentioned, we only need 2 10gb/s connections at the moment)? Or the QNAP?

Thanks!

[Curt Goodwin]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the info and help!!

How does this sound so far:

Synology DS1817+
X550-T1 or X550-T2
QNAP 8 port Switch (optional)
2 Thunderbolt 2 10gb adapters (or do you suggest the Thunderbolt 3 adapter?)
Cat 6 or Cat7 cables, copper or fibre??

We only have 2 video editing bays that need 10gb/s connection. They are late 2015 iMacs.

Your thoughts

[Curt Goodwin]

Thanks Bob,

I will insist on getting 8 Drives. What RAID do you suggest? I terms of bare metal back up, I was thinking of just backing up the entire NAS to Backblaze (which runs constantly in the background) in order to create increased disk fault tolerance and increased striping, not having to have part of the drive space for back up. Your thoughts?

With the DS1817+ how many machines can we connect to via the 10gb connection? If we don’t get the switch (in order to save money) what 10gb card would you recommend of the ones you’ve mentioned. I’ve read the 550-T2 is pretty good.

Lastly, we have an all Mac working environment, but we use iMacs and MacBook Pros so we can not get into any of the machines in order to install a 10gb adapter. Within this ecosystem will we be able to achieve 10g speeds (or near 10gb speeds)?

Thanks man!

[Curt Goodwin]

Sorry took so long to reply. but here is what I am thinking of going with:

Option 1: Server RAID 6 @ 10Gb/s Ethernet Connection

NAS/Server: Synology DS1817
Storage: (6) 6 TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro Hard Drives (will upgrade to 8 eventually)
Switch: QNAP QSW-1208-8C 12-Port 10GbE Switch
Cables: (1) Cat 7 Ethernet Cable
10 Gb/s Ethernet Adapter: (1) Intel X540T1

Any thoughts on this set up would be great. Also, has anyone ever used the QNAP switch and Intel adapter with a Synology RAID? Thanks.

[Curt Goodwin]

HI Rainer,

Thanks for the feedback.

We don’t have the budget for a 60TB RAID.

To be more clear, I was thinking of creating a RAID 5 out of just the 4HDD’s, and use the other 4 SSD’s as like a scratch disks for video editors – 1 TB for each editor.

If I just did a RAID 5 with 8 disks, 4 TB each, is that alone faster then a RAID 5 with 4 or 6 disks + a separate volume of disks (SSDs) for cached files and proxies, etc. from Premier?

I don’t any experience with a RAID 6, what is that and is that the most ideal?

Thanks.