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    SNBForums is a community for everyone, no matter what their level of experience.

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    Skylake / Thunderbird 3 (USB C port) NAS and video edit server

    Hey folks, It's been a year and I've been fumbling along with a very makeshift strategy for my 4K video storage. I got a couple of Samsung 950Pro 500GB U2 NVMe drives on my motherboard for fast delivery of 4K edit files and two 8TB Seagate Archive disks for storage and archive but they've...
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    Skylake / Thunderbird 3 (USB C port) NAS and video edit server

    Hi folks, For video production I need new workstation and server for backup and editing for 4K production and, after a bit of Googling, I've become aware of the arrival of TB3 with the new Skylake motherboards that are coming out this month (Aug 2015). Apart from the recently anounced QNAP...
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    Solar powered NAS?

    Did you get anywhere with your solar project? Hi Bluerwhite and co, It's been a couple of years since the thread started.. any luck? I'm currently researching the cost of a solar powered computer lab for off grid teaching purposes. I'd really appreciate any input to the design and costing of...
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    Remote assistance for SOHO network

    Hi folks, Over the last year I've been an avid follower of the Smallnetbuilder website and forums and it has empowered most, if not all, of my decisions in the building of a network for my small start-up graphics company. Thanks to all the wonderful advice here it's all worked out pretty...
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    ISCSI clarification

    Dear Corndog and anyone else able to help, Thanks for all your wonderfully illuminating posts, I'm learning a lot from you and the other fine folk here on SNB. And I'm still on the search for my storage solution. I was pretty much sold on a ZFS approach, especially when I saw that...
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    ZFS Testing

    Thanks for the link Cheers Tim, 3D Hack
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    ZFS Testing

    Apprentice's Initiation Thanks heaps Corndog, I hadn't heard of robocopy, I'll see if I can find it on my XP box and I'll keep reading and re reading your post until the info sinks in. I guess the KISS principle will work as long as our projects don't grow larger than the individual disks...
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    ZFS Testing

    Demystifying the terminology Thanks for the encouragement. Nice to know I'm not alone. My plan is to firmly establish our new business equipment needs using the KISS principle (Keep It Simple Stupid). We'll get a couple of 1TB drives, one inside a workstation which we share one as our...
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    ZFS Testing

    Please share the rest of your specs Hi John, I've been inspired to try ZFS by this thread but need some handholding on my way. I'm a 3D animator and, for the first time in my career, I'm soon to become responsible for the hardware needs of a small studio. We will launch our business with...
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    How To Use a Router To Add Network Ports

    What speed would this set up allow Hi folks, This is my first post in this fab forum. I've been lurking awhile because I am launching a new business very soon where I will be responsible for setting up and maintaining (or finding support for), a small 3D animation studio In Byron Bay...
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