I don’t want to go absolutely crazy, but I know that stability and performance has a price and I’m willing to accept that. The NewTek engineers (who made the recording program) suggested doing a simple Raid0 of 5 SSD’s for the recording array, and then move it off to the spinners for storage once the recording session is completed, but I think that’s a little too risky for my liking.īudget isn’t a huge concern as the cost can be made back in the rentals. As long as I can write the 8 streams to disk I’ll be fine. For the recording array, anything around 750Gb to 1Tb is more than enough. For the live recording to the SSD array, capacity isn’t as much a concern as overall throughput. Maybe one of these depending on your requirements: Raid 10 would be better IMHO.īroadcom/Avago/LSI make good performing, well supported RAID cards. I think it would be better to stay away from RAID 5 in a write intensive enviroment, unless capacity is a concern. I need a bit more than 24 with some other peripherals being planned. The higher end Skylake X chips can do 44 lanes, while the coffee lakes appear to be limited to 24. My main reason for choosing x299 over Coffee Lake (apart from higher core counts) was the number of PCI lanes. I’ll def be using TR for some other applications! this appliance will eventually be used in a college performance hall to record shows for renting/recording artists, so stability is preferred. After talking with NewTek Engineers about a few unrelated performance considerations, I brought up the high core count of TR vs X299 chips and they said they’ve heard other customers have better stability on intel chips vs AMD. When starting this project plan, I had first looked to threadripper. If you really need the high core count, for the first time in a long while, AMD has a very compelling offer in the form of Ryzen and Threadripper.Īlso, the minute architecture improvements of Coffee Lake (8th Gen chips) never made it to Intel's HEDT platform.
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I can't help with an appropriate RAID controller but I think you should consider not going with x299.