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- Real Name: Andrew Metcalf
Hello, everyone.
I am rather new to the video editing field. I have always had a passion for hardware. I setup this Thunderbolt 3 desktop RAID (QNAP TVS-1282T3) for a friend who does video work professionally. Prior to getting this unit, he was using a stand alone USB 3.0 external HDD. Most mornings it would take him an hour+ to load a project. This box loads it within 30 seconds to a minute depending on how large the project file is. This has greatly increased his efficiency and completion times.
Here is the problem I am running into. We originally setup data tiering (what they call Qtier). The work gets completed too fast for this tiering to really work. He isn't accessing the same files for more than two or three days. The tiering cannot keep up with how quickly he completes these two to three minute videos.
To cut to the chase, I am going to be reconfiguring this box so there are two RAIDs. One for active work and the other for long term storage. I really don't want to have to do this again. I know I can get a PCIe add-in card to RAID two M.2 NVMe drives, but I don't want to have to do that. In the next 6 months, he plans on editing in 4K 10-bit YUV 4:2:2. How fast does the read and writes need to be for 2160p60 in 10-bit YUV 4:2:2? I have seen some tests out on the Internet of 4 SSDs hitting close to 1300MB/s.
*I apologize if I put this in the wrong forum.
*I apologize even further if I complicated the question (just wanted to give the few details I work with)
I am rather new to the video editing field. I have always had a passion for hardware. I setup this Thunderbolt 3 desktop RAID (QNAP TVS-1282T3) for a friend who does video work professionally. Prior to getting this unit, he was using a stand alone USB 3.0 external HDD. Most mornings it would take him an hour+ to load a project. This box loads it within 30 seconds to a minute depending on how large the project file is. This has greatly increased his efficiency and completion times.
Here is the problem I am running into. We originally setup data tiering (what they call Qtier). The work gets completed too fast for this tiering to really work. He isn't accessing the same files for more than two or three days. The tiering cannot keep up with how quickly he completes these two to three minute videos.
To cut to the chase, I am going to be reconfiguring this box so there are two RAIDs. One for active work and the other for long term storage. I really don't want to have to do this again. I know I can get a PCIe add-in card to RAID two M.2 NVMe drives, but I don't want to have to do that. In the next 6 months, he plans on editing in 4K 10-bit YUV 4:2:2. How fast does the read and writes need to be for 2160p60 in 10-bit YUV 4:2:2? I have seen some tests out on the Internet of 4 SSDs hitting close to 1300MB/s.
*I apologize if I put this in the wrong forum.
*I apologize even further if I complicated the question (just wanted to give the few details I work with)