Hey all,
I am pretty new to this but I just set up my old pc using unraid to test if it could potentially be my storage solution for video editing. I am rocking an i5-4690, asrock H97 Pro4 (1gb LAN, 6 sata ports), 8gb ram, gtx 770 4gb, a 1tb WD Caviar Blue as my disk, and a 250gb Samsung EVO 850 as the cache. After doing some test I am currently getting around 40mb/s read/write speeds on my Macbook over wifi (I understand I'd probably get better speeds on LAN).
If I potentially upgrade this system I was thinking of getting two 12gb seagate ironwolf drives, one more ssd, and a 10gb/s NIC. I would create a parity with one of the ironwolf drives and then have the second ssd added to the cache pool for redundancy.
Would this create faster speeds?
Will both the disks and cache have a safety-net?
Is the 10gb/s NIC overkill?
If I end up wanting to edit off of the server would I need better ssds for cache?
Thanks!