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Seems like Synology NAS with 10Gbit Ethernet is the way to go, based on the research I’ve done so far. Does anyone have better ideas?
by perfmode 2y ago
Seems like Synology NAS with 10Gbit Ethernet is the way to go, based on the research I’ve done so far.
Does anyone have better ideas?
- dijit 2y agoThunderbolt external raid is better, for a solo video editor. There are options from caldigit on the low end: https://www.caldigit.com/t4/ https://www.caldigit.com/t4/ or qnap on the mid end: https://www.qnap.com/en/product/tvs-h874t https://www.qnap.com/en/product/tvs-h874t
- mycall 2y agoOCuLink or CameraLink also come to mind.
- jkestner 2y agoI've been curious on the real-world throughput of a directly attached Thunderbolt RAID vs a 10GB (single or bonded) Synology NAS. It's annoying to have to go to my desk to connect to the USB-C Drobo, and I have to jump ship sooner or later.
- kridsdale1 2y agoI have gone down this path myself for doing 8k editing. TB3 attached SSDs IO to my Mac at about 3GB/s. The ones on my server connected over 10GB fiber Ethernet actually only reach about 800MB/s and I suspect that that macOS networking stack is just not at all optimized for 10G.
- MobiusHorizons 2y ago10GBit networking is really only 1.25GBytes per second, so 800MBytes/s isn't saturating the link, but is 64% of the way there. TB3 has a theoretical throughput of 40GByte/s so 3GByte/s => 24GBit/s is 60%. Realistically both are lower to the theretical link performance than I would have guessed, so there may be some bottlenecks involved beyond just computational overhead, but it makes sense TB3 was going to win assuming the storage had the bandwidth.
- jkestner 2y agoYeah, was going to say, I'd take 800MB/s. I get a mere 180MB/s on this Drobo 5C (filled with 7200rpm HDDs) — theoretical max is 625MB/s.
- diggan 2y agoWell, the bottleneck is probably getting that off the camera somehow, rather than how to get it elsewhere once off the camera.
- threeseed 2y agoSynology wouldn't work well here. To prevent causing issues upstream you would want to write to a fast NVME SSD first before backing up to a HDD array. Unfortunately, it doesn't support this use case as the NAS is designed for movie streaming, offices, security cameras etc.
- sofixa 2y ago10Gbit would be the bare minimum, 8TB at 10Gbit would take 1h46mins. Assuming the disks aren't bottlenecked, which means SSDs.
- sroussey 2y agoYeah, you would want a Thunderbolt 5 external RAID device.
- kridsdale1 2y agoThat’s some serious 2025 level disk tech. I want it.