This may be controversial to the anti-RAID contingent who views audio and video files as static data, but another option is a quality outboard HW RAID enclosure to the server machine of your choice.
We have a similar library to the OP: rapidly approaching 15TB. We have not just a lot of media, but a lot of hours invested in organizing and tagging it. It is a dynamic data volume, as new media is constantly being added, and old media occasionally updated, retagged, re-coded, or archived as new media and clients come and go. Weve kept it (all backed up locally and offsite of course), on a Areca 4-bay TB enclusure for a number of years. This type of enclosure and connection will easily saturate the bus of any host machine, and any ethernet connection that machine is attached to. It is compact, quiet, scalable and expandable, and is fault tolerant. Host machine migration is a snap, you simply move the enclosure TB cable over to the new machine. The newest version of it is TB3 and USB3 capable, so it will accomodate just about any host machine. I am not a fan of NAS-based data servers for larger libraries and or with many clients. They require so much processing power to handle large libraries with mixed multiple clients that you are ultimately better off with a freestanding server machine. Smaller libraries or those with fewer clients might pull it off, however. But not in our environment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sgmlaw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13995 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109946
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