Hard disk usage on the Tricaster TC1

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DaveKey

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We are looking at upgrading our TC1 hard drives. So I have several questions:

A. I noted that our TC1 motherboard has SSUSB inputs, both type-A and type-C. Does anyone know the specs for these inputs, are they USB 3.1, USB 3.2 etc? Are there any known problems using these ports for recording? Looking at: SAMSUNG T7 Portable SSD

B. Is there an NVMe connector on the motherboard? If there is, can it be used for the C: drive? D: drive?

C. Any recommendations for 2.5" Samsung SSD's to replace the 3.5" disk drives? Like 'EVO' (MLC V-NAND), or QVO (2nd gen QLC), or PRO (MLC V-NAND)

D. The 'TLC NAND SSD's seem to be the NVMe drives, are there any in the 2.5" physical package?

Thanks, We want to upgrade before we experience problems, so any helpful info would be appreciated.
 
@DaveKey

1. I would stay away from recording on external USB drives. Just not a good practice. stick to the internal sata ports or nvme if your MB has them.

2. Newtek has various revisions of the tricaster with some varying hardware including different Motherboards. On the Asus X99 there is an Nvme for the OS. on the MSI X299 there is 3 nvme drives, a u.2 port and several sata ports. On the X99 its hidden under the GPU/GPU riser card.

3. I have installed Samsung Evo 870 drives and they work very well with 1080 60P. Curtis Wood the Tricaster master has done mods with the 870 evos in various models of Tricasters.

The X299 creator also has 10 Gbe which is great for offloading to a NAS. I have a Dell 5820 running Truenas Scale with a X520-Da2 installed and it has made file transfers buttery smooth.
 
Thanks for your reply DBT. We do have a Synology NAS in our rack on a different subnet and a 10G switch. Our need is for multi cam recording. Hadn't thought of that since we have mainly used the NAS for editing, but that would put the files exactly where they need to be...
 
There isn't anything preventing you from recording to NAS solution from 3rd party vendors, but none of that is officially supported. Mainly because of the unknowns involved in performance, bandwidth, IOPS, file-system capabilities and other factors involved with these solutions.

That isn't to say it won't work, in fact many probably do. But what you need to do is a full-length recording test. For example, to now if a solution can handle multiple sources of capture for several hours is to test it. A short 30 second or 5-minute test will not tell you if the system can maintain this throughput for 1 hour or more.

FYI, there is a supported NAS solution for TriCaster products, Vizrt Network Remote Storage. This system based on the SNS EVO platform, designed for video production workflows. Besides using it as TriCaster storage, it includes a native NDI recording feature, built-in MAM system, automation capabilities, NLE project sharing features and more. Ultimately this unit connected to the TriCaster like any SMB mapped drive, but the drive performance and RAID is tuned to handle long format, high bandwidth media recording and playback.
 
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