Consultants of Network Attached Storage - NAS - Dell Compellent FS8600, Dell EqualLogic FS7600 and FS7610 with FluidFS v3 offered by Unified IP Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, Telangana. The Dell Fluid File System (FluidFS) network attached storage (NAS) solution is a highly-available file storage solution. The solution aggregates multiple NAS controllers into one system and presents them to.
Up to 125 users (when other architects from other firms are working here on bigger projects) can have to work on CAD files (Autocad 2013 / 2014) Every user will open about 5 to 10 CAD files. Each autocad file will then open up to 15 xref files. Several other files (DWL, DWL2) are updated (saved) on a regular basis. The autosave is set to 5 or 10 minutes. Meanwhile the users are working with Office, PDF and the list goes on.
Up to 20 users are working on 3D softwares (files are kept on the network)
We started to use Revit. In 3 to 5 years we'll see more projects on Revit than Autocad. But we currently use Autocad.
QUESTION: Dell has recommended to set a pool in RAID 6 instead of RAID 10 on our two Equallogic PS6110. The Equallogic FS7610 is amazingly fast. But we've been using file servers connected to SAN in RAID 10 for years.
They told me that the number of drives (48x 10K SAS drives) could slighly increase the performance. But RAID 6 is not a RAID level I,ve been working with before. I don't see how RANDOM WRITE can be faster no matter the number of drives we have.
It's less a problem for 3D or Revit. Files are larger. But I'm a little concern about Autocad.
Any advice is welcomed
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