07-25-2022, 02:59 PM
QNAP TS-h973ax is a good all in one solution. It has 10gbe and NVMe caching. On top of that, you also get to use U.2 drives for storage to achieve greater speeds compared to HDD RAID. If you only need 1GbE speeds, then those 5-6 people sharing a 10Gbit connection will achieve what you need.
RAID10 is a popular choice to achieve the best performance. But if redundancy is very important, then RAID6 will be a safer choice (RAID10 has only 2 drive redundancy if only one drive in each "RAID1" group fails). Either way, all performance demanding tasks can be done on SSD media and HDD pool could be used only for archiving and finished project sharing.
If you need something that allows more 10gbe or even Thunderbolt connectivity, then Qnap 88X series will be a way to go.
I hope this helps.
RAID10 is a popular choice to achieve the best performance. But if redundancy is very important, then RAID6 will be a safer choice (RAID10 has only 2 drive redundancy if only one drive in each "RAID1" group fails). Either way, all performance demanding tasks can be done on SSD media and HDD pool could be used only for archiving and finished project sharing.
If you need something that allows more 10gbe or even Thunderbolt connectivity, then Qnap 88X series will be a way to go.
I hope this helps.