We publish magazines here and work in the Adobe suit so you know the size of
the files we are working on here.
I have found that a 1 gig network is very rarely the bottleneck and we have
20 editors and about 10 creative people all pumping large data files across
the network, not including the other people in the office.
The processors are just dual quad cores on ours, but we did that because of
the Mac support issues and the need to run Extreme-IP on the server to allow
for full support of the Mac <-> Pc file issue and we wanted it to have enough
to take us to the future.
The biggest hit is when we backup in the evenings. Then we hit about 20%
utilization on the gig card on that server during this period.
We went with a lot of spindles in the raid cabinet w/ a raid 6 configuration
on 10 drives total to get us to the storage we wanted on that server.
Ymmv
Felis demulcta mitis ...
Alan G. Monaghan
[ MCSE+I - Win4.0/ MCSE - Win2k/ BJCP # C0389(Recognized) Ò¿Ó¬ ]
Systems Administrator
Gardner Publications, Inc.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 10:09 AM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: File server question
>>
>> Good morning,
>>
>> We're looking at implementing a new file server at work. It will
>> store a healthy amount of data (6-8 TB). Our editors will work on
>> projects locally, and backup their projects nightly to the file server
>> via a Robocopy routine. Only changed files will be copied across the
>> network. We have four editors, and a gigabit network.
>>
>> How important will the processor and memory be in this situation? I
>> assume our biggest bottlenecks will be the SATA controllers and
>> network speed. Am I correct?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Eric Brouwer
>> IT Manager
>> www.forestpost.com
>> [email protected]
>> 248.855.4333
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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