Hello Forum, yes this is my first post and yes I have searched to no avail on the entire interwebs.
I am tasked with building a new Workstation for my company. We are small (~10 People) and this PC will have about 6 users currently. It will serve as our SolidWorks(SW) server and will contain all of our files from our projects and the SW software that runs it. I was asked to spec a 2k and 4k build. I think the 4k build is rather extreme but why the heck not.
My question is this: Can I use these 4 NVME SSD's as our storage. in Raid 10 we would have a total capacity of 4 TB and that is plenty for us. We will not be booting from this drive configuration as it will be storage only. We will at the very least be doing Raid 1 for the redundancy of our data, that we also backup. These are very important files.
Why this setup? Speed. We have the multiple users that need to access and write these files. The computer itself will be doing nothing but passing information from our personal workstations to the drives and vice versa. We mostly work on a local network and if we are remote we have a dedicated 50 MBPS up/down fiber line.
I want to avoid VROC and threadripper. So, is this possible? I will include the hardware I have spec'd below. Should the bios see these drives as any other drive? Does it matter that they are on a PCIE slot riser? Any help would be awesome. I am a mechanical engineer, but an amateur PC enthusiast that builds my own PC's at home.
CPU - intel i9-9900k
Mobo - ASUS WS z390 PRO
Mem - Corsair dominator platinum
stor - Samsung 970 evo plus (2TB)
M.2 ext - Asus Hyper m.2 x16 pcie OR Highpoint Tech SSD7101A-1
I am tasked with building a new Workstation for my company. We are small (~10 People) and this PC will have about 6 users currently. It will serve as our SolidWorks(SW) server and will contain all of our files from our projects and the SW software that runs it. I was asked to spec a 2k and 4k build. I think the 4k build is rather extreme but why the heck not.
My question is this: Can I use these 4 NVME SSD's as our storage. in Raid 10 we would have a total capacity of 4 TB and that is plenty for us. We will not be booting from this drive configuration as it will be storage only. We will at the very least be doing Raid 1 for the redundancy of our data, that we also backup. These are very important files.
Why this setup? Speed. We have the multiple users that need to access and write these files. The computer itself will be doing nothing but passing information from our personal workstations to the drives and vice versa. We mostly work on a local network and if we are remote we have a dedicated 50 MBPS up/down fiber line.
I want to avoid VROC and threadripper. So, is this possible? I will include the hardware I have spec'd below. Should the bios see these drives as any other drive? Does it matter that they are on a PCIE slot riser? Any help would be awesome. I am a mechanical engineer, but an amateur PC enthusiast that builds my own PC's at home.
CPU - intel i9-9900k
Mobo - ASUS WS z390 PRO
Mem - Corsair dominator platinum
stor - Samsung 970 evo plus (2TB)
M.2 ext - Asus Hyper m.2 x16 pcie OR Highpoint Tech SSD7101A-1