The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/drewfx on 2025-01-13 02:18:32.
Background: I’m a independent film producer running a small company, we make films, post, VFX etc. 2.5 full time editors. I’ve always been a big fan of ARECA and have 4 8Bay TB2/3 raids (running RAID5) They have been rock solid. I love hardware raids. Currently i have 4 of them connected to a MacMini M2 for over 300TB of active storage. Internal 10G port aggregated with a secondary 10G port to a Ubiquity XG switch.
I feel the next step is coming.
I’ve built 2 beelink on linux as a plex server and getting more familiar with docker and linux.
From my research people are saying hardware raids are dying, freenas and other seem to be the popular choice.
Questions:
- What connection is recommended from the drive enclosure to the server? TB has been a great choice for macs
- Is there anyway to connect my areca enclosures over to a linux machine. This would allow me to pool them and maybe increase the life.
- Would there be a 24 drive box you’d recommend?
- should i separate the server and drives or try to squeeze it all in one?
- do i need a raid controller card if i use trueNAS or equivalent?
- I like having a huge pool of active and available storage, but it would be great if we could move a top priority project (aprox 12TB) onto SSD while still remaining on our main volume . Is this possible within the same volume or would i need to make two separate volumes each connected to HHD or SSD.
There are so many black box and expensive solutions for video editing, lots of great features, but I’d love to homebrew this is possible.
Any advice, links to other setups, suggestions etc would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks