Will my upgraded NAS handle video rendering?

[liberty610]

Hey guys,

I just upgraded my WD My Cloud ex4 to a WD MY Cloud PR4100 system. I have raid 5 configured on a 16tb 4 bay setup (4x 4tb WD red drives).

I just upgraded all my Ethernet cables to 7, and I am curious if the PR4100 will handle Vegas Pro HD video rendering?

I have been editing video for years, and I have a a solid setup for rendering within my PC. I have several internal drives. My main OS drive that handles Windows 10 and Vegas Pro 14 is an m.2 SSD, I also have a SATA SSD, and 5 WD black drives at random sizes, and I usually use files from those drives when rendering to and editing from.

I am curious, as I have seen others talk about rendering over their networks with their NAS storage devices. I have not tried it yet, but was looking to see if I should start doing so. I have not jumped into the 4k world of video editing yet, but I do have a Sony NX 100 video camera that records in full 1080p at 60fps at 50Mbps. So the files can get quite large. The pr4100 has a 1.6 GHz Intel Pentium N3710 Quad-Core processor and 4 gigs of ram. I am not sure what the read/write speeds of the drives are, but they are the standard WD Red drives.

Thanks in advance for any replies!

 

[corroded]

What is your Router/Switch leg rated at? Gigabit?

 

[USAFRet]

The rendering brain still lives on your PC. The NAS is just where the file is stored and saved to.

Since you already have all the stuff...just try it. See what happens.

 

[liberty610]

What is your Router/Switch leg rated at? Gigabit?

Yes. It's at 4 port gigabit switch. It's a little older though. It's the Lynksys E3000 router.

 

[corroded]

do an apples to apples test. Take a file and render it once from a local drive and time it... do the same from the NAS. Results?