Hi all,
I'm a professional photo/video editor. I've been using 4TB HDDs as storage and would just swap them out when full and store them away in a cupboard somewhere. The issue is that I've increasingly needed to go back to these HDDs and needed to quickly access them, do a quick edit on them, and then put them back onto the cupboard.
It's getting quite time consuming for such little work-results as I'm doing this several times a week. Especially when you have to wait for someone else as there's a few of us here at the studio.
I live in Indonesia so prices have been converted to USD for reference. We're still a small-time studio so we are on the budget side.
Build
CPU : Ryzen 3 2300X or Ryzen 5 1400 - 79$
Mobo : ASRock A320M-HDV - 45$
RAM : Patriot Blackout Edition 2x8GB 3000MHz - 64$
SSD : Crucial MX500 256GB - 46$ (for caching - I've heard this helps a lot)
PSU : Corsair CV450 - 43$
Case : Cooler Master N400 - 42$
Sub-Total: 319$
NAS Drives
For the 4TB NAS Drives themselves, what do you think of these?
Toshiba N300 - 112$
WD Red - 117$
Seagate Ironwolf - 129$
Our Requirements
I think will only use 1 drive for parity/failure.
We do not require the drives to be constantly active.
We would like it if possible to be able to edit directly on the NAS directly (if not possible at least the Photoshop pictures).
We very rarely deal with 4K videos but a lot of 4K pictures.
My Questions
I'm a professional photo/video editor. I've been using 4TB HDDs as storage and would just swap them out when full and store them away in a cupboard somewhere. The issue is that I've increasingly needed to go back to these HDDs and needed to quickly access them, do a quick edit on them, and then put them back onto the cupboard.
It's getting quite time consuming for such little work-results as I'm doing this several times a week. Especially when you have to wait for someone else as there's a few of us here at the studio.
I live in Indonesia so prices have been converted to USD for reference. We're still a small-time studio so we are on the budget side.
Build
CPU : Ryzen 3 2300X or Ryzen 5 1400 - 79$
Mobo : ASRock A320M-HDV - 45$
RAM : Patriot Blackout Edition 2x8GB 3000MHz - 64$
SSD : Crucial MX500 256GB - 46$ (for caching - I've heard this helps a lot)
PSU : Corsair CV450 - 43$
Case : Cooler Master N400 - 42$
Sub-Total: 319$
NAS Drives
For the 4TB NAS Drives themselves, what do you think of these?
Toshiba N300 - 112$
WD Red - 117$
Seagate Ironwolf - 129$
Our Requirements
I think will only use 1 drive for parity/failure.
We do not require the drives to be constantly active.
We would like it if possible to be able to edit directly on the NAS directly (if not possible at least the Photoshop pictures).
We very rarely deal with 4K videos but a lot of 4K pictures.
My Questions
- How's the build?
- Do you suggest unRAID or FreeNAS?
- How do I boot/setup the system without any graphics?