Gigabit Switch for Small CG Architectural Rendering office
I started this other similar question:
Gigabit Switch Recommendation for Home/Small Office
But i think maybe is important to mention the use that i will give to my GIGABIT equipment.
I use 3ds Max, and all the files needed to work on each project (textures, models, etc,) will be stored on a gigabit NAS.
One Computer will work as my Workstation, and 2 or 3 other computers will work as RENDER NODES, where they receive the rendering task from my computer, and they pull the textures, and other needed files from the NAS in order to render the images...
So, which is an affordable reliable GIGABIT SWITCH that you recommend for this kind of SCENARIO? (Still the same models recommended on the other question?)
Gigabit Switch Recommendation for Home/Small Office
But i think maybe is important to mention the use that i will give to my GIGABIT equipment.
I use 3ds Max, and all the files needed to work on each project (textures, models, etc,) will be stored on a gigabit NAS.
One Computer will work as my Workstation, and 2 or 3 other computers will work as RENDER NODES, where they receive the rendering task from my computer, and they pull the textures, and other needed files from the NAS in order to render the images...
So, which is an affordable reliable GIGABIT SWITCH that you recommend for this kind of SCENARIO? (Still the same models recommended on the other question?)
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It does support all the protocols I mentioned... CIFS/SMB, NFS, FTP, FTTPS, HTTP, HTTPS..
I will depend on your end user clients... if they're all Windows machine, then CIFS will be easier (even though it's not very efficient on the large implementations and across a WAN link)...
What you can do best now is... get the NAS and give it a static IP address (say 10.0.0.1 255.255.255.0), and get a normal Ethernet cable and connect it to your laptop and give your laptop a 10.0.0.2 255.255.255.0) ip address. Then start transferring files between the 2... This will give you an understanding of how fast your NAS can give you...
I bought a NAS before... but that goes back to 4 years now... and it appeared as though the NIC chip on the NAS was not very depend and it was the bottleneck... especially that a lot of those NAS run a Linux server that is quite limited to the RAM and processing available on board.
I will depend on your end user clients... if they're all Windows machine, then CIFS will be easier (even though it's not very efficient on the large implementations and across a WAN link)...
What you can do best now is... get the NAS and give it a static IP address (say 10.0.0.1 255.255.255.0), and get a normal Ethernet cable and connect it to your laptop and give your laptop a 10.0.0.2 255.255.255.0) ip address. Then start transferring files between the 2... This will give you an understanding of how fast your NAS can give you...
I bought a NAS before... but that goes back to 4 years now... and it appeared as though the NIC chip on the NAS was not very depend and it was the bottleneck... especially that a lot of those NAS run a Linux server that is quite limited to the RAM and processing available on board.
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Thanks PGSTEPHAN, this was very helpfull and detailed advice...
I will follow your instructions when the parts arrive.
Thanks!!
I will follow your instructions when the parts arrive.
Thanks!!
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So the NAS that i WILL use (it is still in the box) is a QNAP TS-110 Turbo NAS (only one Harddrive) ... I dont know if thos things you mention are the ones it runs on... I looked quickly at the box and none of those terms (NFS CIFS SMB) are mentioned...
Excellent help!