Connecting two Home buildings

[SoundEng]

It's pretty easy to get the pc to shutdown after the backup completes, Acronis can wake the computer up from a low power sleep, take a backup, then shutdown. You could even turn them off completely and use wake on LAN to power them up for the backup remotely during the early hours.

Nothing wrong with cheap gigabit switches in my experience, i've got a couple of cheap Asus ones that cost me something like £20 each 4 years ago. Still going strong and have no trouble shifting gigabit traffic over them (I get over 100MB/s, without jumbo frames enabled (though they do support them), and am probably limited more by my NICs or TCP/IP settings than the switches themselves)

Since you've determined there is a case for >= 2gb/s , why not move your server and managed switch into the studio? that way you can team nics to your hearts delight, and just have a single 1Gb/s link back to the house which should be plenty for net access to the studio and any media you are pulling from your server over wifi.

true, but my experience with WOL hasnt been great.. :/

well in my experience they haven't been able to maintain gigabit speeds at all, when compared to a better make/model.

one problem with putting it in the studio....noise. Can't have noisy servers running in the background really... :/

 

[PistolPete]

Just use DAS then on your editing PC - RAID-0 even, then after each session, sync up to your server - as a set and forget operation.

I do something similar. My main workstation runs an SSD for the OS and 4x80GB Velociraptors in RAID1 as my data drive.

I have a a robocopy script to mirror data drive my server (which is backed up to 2x external drives weekly). I dont have many projects on the go so I leave them all on the workstation and simply re-mirror it after I've finished for the day.

I would never risk trying to pump multiple tracks of audio in real-time across the network. 1 glitch or TCP retry and you are either out of sync of you've permanently got a drop-out or blip on your audio.

 

[Zarf]

true, but my experience with WOL hasnt been great.. :/

well in my experience they haven't been able to maintain gigabit speeds at all, when compared to a better make/model.

one problem with putting it in the studio....noise. Can't have noisy servers running in the background really... :/

Can't you put it in a soundproofed area?
That's really the last thing I can suggest, otherwise you're going to have to drop a few hundred on managed gigabit switches and multiple SFP pairs to meet your requirements.

 

[SoundEng]

Can't you put it in a soundproofed area?
That's really the last thing I can suggest, otherwise you're going to have to drop a few hundred on managed gigabit switches and multiple SFP pairs to meet your requirements.

that may be a possibility but i do not know yet.

Realistically how much would a 'few hundred' be? i.e rough cost for two manages switches, SFP modules and fibre cable?

cheers

 

[Deleted member 651465]

This is what I'd do / have done.

1) Have the servers / storage in a separate room, ideally ventilated (don't put them in a cupboard! Heat = fan speed increased = noise)
2) Terminate with CAT6 in ducting.. this gives you a solid backbone to work on, and can be upgraded later when funds allow
3) Think about your storage requirements.. then double it.

As for acoustics.. that's another one, but the basic rules are.. don't have parallel surfaces, you want a reverb time that isn't too long (or short) and don't be afraid to go retro to solve problems.. big sofas are just as good as the expensive bass traps you can buy.

 

[PiKe]

Is the reason people don't recommend cat5 because of the ground differential issues?

This doesn't apply if the cat5 runs down the side of a building right? We have a webcam on the roof and wondered if an arrester was necessary.