Im far from needing stuff like this, but i must admit how much i love the editing in your videos, the colors , the audio , everything ^^

@sidlake5954

3 жыл бұрын

same

The old studio I used to work also names their machines and servers using starwars inspired names. our first server was an old synology named millennium falcon, it was then upgraded to a rack server named death star then my work station was named darth malgus.

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant! ))

@3dvfxprofessor

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndreyLebrov We're using military terms for my studio Virtual Republic: ALPHA, BRAVO, CHARLIE ... DATA ... MISSION ... PRESIDENT, COMMANDER, AMBASSADOR, GENERAL ... etc. It's pretty nice scalable.

No question but just came here to watch your CG animation. Sir you are an amazing Artist. I also want to build my skills like you❤️

This has been so useful, im going to try to setup a synology server at our small studio. Thank you Andrey for these great videos.

I come back to this guy often his calm demeanor is comforting and smooth and he makes videos about the problems and things I need to learn in VFX. great guy

Andrey, you have the Talent to explain very technical stuff in a way that 10 minutes seams like 1 minute. That is a quality i have never seen bevore from a youtuber. Congratulations for that. 👍

This is the best Synology ad I've ever seen. I hope they are giving you some free units! Btw, thanks! I just found your channel, and as a VFX artist building a company, this is good info.

Amazing, I’m definitely getting this. I’m in the process of building my home pipeline now and can’t wait to get a server setup

I love how the glowing bugs in the background messed up at 6:17, love your videos

Andrey Happy New Year and thanks for the almost meditative video, as always on top)

I was just searching about Synology NAS yesterday and decided to invest one next month, and here's a video, great.

I love your video, your creative work is massive

Thank You so much for sharing this!

Synology really does make the best kit out there for anything less than enterprise level SAN deployments.

Great production value!!

you are very lucky i've always run raid 5 as well with enterprise level drives but i've had loads of issues over the years...! i think its down to how many wally people you have using the system!!! repairing permissions is always an issue. despite reburning in the raid many times .... but love your thinking and really... i feel normal now and less OCD... :)

Your quality of content is really inspiring and i want to see more :) Can you make a Video about your file management? I think many people struggle there to come up with a good system, like I do right now.

Definetly interesting topic and great investment for the future as an artist.

Great stuff I was literally just about to but a NAS and needed some advice!

thanks again for the tips!

something ive been working on.. i used to manage a raid archive at work and a media system for play back local and then another system for assets. All this crazy storage and all the raid companies still suggest that tapes are the best long term back up (my brain hurts) i budget 200 to 500 a year on drives to keep them all fresh just in case. Custom projects don't stay on my hard drives... Asset management people dont get how important it is.. 4.6 tb of 3d and textures / hdrs it all mounts up right happy new year dude.. hearing you speak makes me feel less crazy :)

@griptopia

3 жыл бұрын

2000 to 5000 a year to keep 2x24tb units running well

Hey andrey all i got to say is that your video production quality is amazing even the real company did not do a representation like that, even tho i am a blender user but it's all CG the methods is the one defferent, you should do a landscape tutorial .

You know, you are awesome 😎🔥

We miss you !

Synology looks really good. As a hobbyist I use pCloud as a central cloud storage between machines. Only issue is it has a max lifetime storage of 2tb. It assigns drive p: when it's installed so all machines have same path for assets etc. When comping with AE though I'll copy working files to local ssd

What read/write speeds do you get on your 72 TB repository? And also what is your backup solution for the 72TB? Do you use cloud, or smaller cold storage drives, or have faith in the Raid 5 protection? Thank you for video!!

Love your intro :D :D

Exciting

amazing!

I've learnt alot from you

Super nice video as always. Thank you for doing this Andrey! :-) I'm just wondering one thing - seeing speakers on top of your Synology devices... could this potentially affect your hard drives inside the NAS somehow/sometime? I mean when the audio is on of course and it creates vibrations.

helpful information.

Very important tutorial

3:00 that fusion setup tho.

Please, can you make tutorial how do you do UV map?) Your VFX and CG are amazing!

Hello Andrey! Many thanks for sharing all these information. Keep up the good work mate! Could you make a video on how to set up a renderfarm please? I have a few PCs laying around that I could use for this purpose. Arranging them into a network is done already, I'd be more interested in setting up the render manager and the system in general. If you could mention a few words about render node licences (of external render engines) as well that would be very helpful. Thanks a lot in advance for considering.

You are a font of knowledge, thanks for sharing it with us! Just a question, unrelated to this video. Would you consider using Corona renderer with C4D, or do you think Octane is far superior? Thanks for your feedback.

Gonna have to wait and see if it's gonna be needed to use this later on this year. Been looking for a better solution for backup.

where are u mate? we miss u damn so much.

Hi Andrey. First of all, I would like to say thank you for your work to help us. I'm following you for a while and you're the main reason why I got into c4d and octane at the time. It was while ago. The time has come and I want to take it seriously. So far, on and off I was using old version of c4d, just purchased new license. I know you're working in redshift at the moment and need an advice. Should I stick to octane or go redshift? What's better long term? Will maxon support it better and will it be more combined?. Also of you do privet zoom sessions am very interested. Thank you. Lech

How’s the drive noise for you? I just got a Synology DS418 to start and a couple Seagate Exos 14TBs and it was a constant hum and quite loud when reading/writing. Ended up putting it in another room with a router.

Hello, Love your videos all the time. I have got DS1621xs+ here. Just one question. I want to install the M.2 NVMe SSD, the Synology website says it is only use is Synology SNV3400-400G. Can I pay anything apart from Synology. What is your M.2 NVMe SSD that you use for DS1621xs+? Many thanks :-) Andrew

Great video Andrey, lots of useful info. I am just on the cusp of setting up my own network storage at home for all personal projects. Is a 1gbe network able to keep a single cg artist running smoothly? (Assuming renders and assets on the NAS)

@-CQ

3 жыл бұрын

No, That's not beneficial for Video Editing. You'll get only 100MB r/w speed.

HI! thanks for the video ! one question last, is it worth to setup 10gb network at home ? or its ok with 1gb speed for 1-2 PC? Thanks

Hi Lebrov. Can u make some tutorial about your opener? very cool particles there.

4:10 how did you achieved to render octane with deadline where you mentioned that your master render is going through deadline and other pcs have just nodes running a little explanation on this subject would help alot

Nice video Andrey. I’m going to buy a smaller Sinology Nas soon, the DS220j 2 bay, 4gb x 2. For me that’s enough for now. What RAID type should I choose if I want to use the full 8tb?

@janiswolf

3 жыл бұрын

raid 0. but if one drive fails, ALL the data is gone. i would recommend raid 1 (each drive has the exact same data on it) but to have 8TB of usable storage, you need 2x 8tb drives

Your Studio looks great..Is there a way I can see some of the work done by the studio

Great video, But what about vibration caused by your speakers on top of the servers? Don't you think it could damage the drives?

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

Potentially. Luckily for this scenario I don't listen to music at loudness where objects around are bouncing. Quite safe, shouldn't have filmed it that way though

I am amazed by the graphics and live footage integration - you use cinema 4d, fusion for trakcing and than compositing? Looks really nice...too bad there is no more organized fusion tutorials...

@tecuaniistapalnanaskayan2628

3 жыл бұрын

He mentioned Fusion and Houdini Fx

Question about something That was not mentioned in the video..... What is that Firefly looking jar in the background!?

@aksharpatel1097

3 жыл бұрын

He already mad ea video about it, search for the jar with fireflies

I get that those speakers are shielded, but damn I had a heart attack when I saw two speakers on a stack of hard drives :v *feeling old*

@paweltrella

3 жыл бұрын

It's scary to even look! Andrey plz. move those servers away from the speakers.

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your concerns gents, I don’t listen to music loud enough for objects to jump around )) the units vibrate more on their own than the speakers

@nvmskullworks4794

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndreyLebrov It's not the noise/vibration, it's the association with magnetism ;)

@paweltrella

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndreyLebrov Unshielded magnet in loudspeaker will damage HDD easily. All modern studio monitors are electromagnetically shielded, but still it can be not enough.

A few questions. This is perfect timing by the way. I have been looking through so many videos to find someone that does 3d and video using a NAS. When editing taking render elements into after effects and editing/comping with them, do the image sequences load into the m.2 caching for faster playback? If not do you run into any lag with comping 4k render passes? How many passes have you worked with live on a timeline before getting any lag, if any? What do you recommend for SSDs for simulations? Do you raid any of the SSDs for redundancy, raid them all into one massive drive or keep them all separate and fill them up as individual drives? What would you recommend for the amount of ram? Can you have some drives as a raid redundancy, some as individuals, and some as a raid for backup? Or should backups and working files be separated on different hardware? Keep up the great content Andrey!

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

Is working without lags in AE possible? 😳 didn’t know that. Can’t answer some of your question as I don’t work in AE for a long time now. Editing, grading 6K raw from the server is not a problem. Don’t think caching is participating in footage readout, but It does participate in multiple files read outs, which sequences are :) I work with 30 passes on average if it’s something complicated. Expecting live preview on such comps is silly. Synology sell their own 4TB ssds. Any 3rd party would work too. Yes I do raid ssds for redundancy, dunno why. Habit 😄 max ram is recommended haha what else could I say. Backups should be done on a clone unit somewhere off-site as they are necessary in case your server gets physically destroyed. I don’t store any life important info on my home servers so I don’t need such backup. Hope this helps

@sergiomarchelli

3 жыл бұрын

My own experience with AE and if you want AE -to-> Media Encoder that if all is on Nvme SSD is faster than the HDD...but this include all the video elements, all the assets are on the SSD project folder, once the project is done I copy it on the slow drive...

@jimmwagner

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndreyLebrov Thanks man! I really appreciate the replies.

we need more CG challenge

I am wondering how you can tolerate the noise of the 2 NAS producing on your desk (even with SSD's they still have the fans). I am having one and it's on a different room.

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

Well it’s not THAT bad 😂 it’s barely noticeable really

It would be great if you make a video on camera animation, Btw In your volvo car video, camera animations are great Thanks

Nice setup and explanation ! Just one comment : Raid 5 is good and secure but don't consider it can't fail (I'm sure you know that but found that the video could be misleading). I use a lot of nas (Synology, Qnap, Lacie etc...) in quite similar environnement for years and I can testify that sometimes you can / will loose your data. While on the hardware side it's quite unlikely to have 2 disks failing at the same time, on the software / controler side bad things can happen too and once a Raid 5 array gets corrupted it's very likely that you loose all your data. So as everything is centralized don't forget to do backup ;) One question related to 10g network : which switch do you use ? (I use netgear XS T serie but I'm not 100% happy with it) Thank you !

What is that jar in the background? That's dope.

Hey Andrey, It's been 3 months since your last upload. Hope you're safe with your family. Just checking if you're alright?

*Would you make video on your learning sources? What books, courses, sites you use?* Many people would profit from following your footsteps. I am pretty sure it won't be hard to make such episode, but pay off would be really big.

U r busy with projects but man u should make videos more often.

Why don't you use the Synology rack mount version? In conjunction with the switch, ups unit, computer and so on...

Nice topic! I did chose a synology NAS as my home-storage to dump data und work from it. But I could not decide what model suits my needs. The synology website configurator was not helpfull enogh for me. Any advice?

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

The ones featured in this video are the newest ones and aimed towards dudes like us )

0:10 oh, do you like owls? 🦉🦉🦉

ooooh i might get something like that

Hey Andrey, I want to get into motion graphics using Fusion, but there are nearly no motion graphics courses and tutorials for fusion. Did you use fusion or AE for the motion graphics you did in this video. I just wana know that if I get into fusion I wouldn't be wasting time if the developers don't really have plans for 2d motion graphics. I also love node based softwares.

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

Fusion for this one mate )

What are the monitors that Andrey is using does anybody know?

Besides video editing do you see any benefits from the 10gbe network oposite to standard 1gbe network? 10gbe tends to benefit alot sequential workloads while random workloads where you pull alot of tiny files (3d rendering/scene parsing and loading loads of maps) dont seem to work much better. We do archviz and 3d rendering ans have a 10gbe network in the office. To be honest I don't seem to see much difference from 1gbe so far...

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

Cache, assets load times, network rendering in certain engines - all this to name a few requires fast communication. Always depends on the case. I feel a massive difference

@archvuk

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndreyLebrov Thank you for the reply. Keep up the great work! Really amazing content!

One question. Let’s say my NAS Drive gets destroyed in a fire or stolen. Would it be possible to have a separate NAS located in another house that always backing up my main NAS? Or is there any better advice? How do you’re team and you handle with that? Btw great video and inspiring editing as always!

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah Synology have dedicated app/service by default for that, you can create a schedule when you want your servers to sync etc

Very tempting - great video. How is the noise level (fan, drives, etc.)? What is your opinion on SSD vs. HDD in terms of speed, long lasting, noise? My tech dealer told me to use SSD for many reasons...Any suggestions? Thank you very much in advance...

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

I’d recommend ssds too. Unfortunately, there are no ssds with similar to HDD capacities existing. Noise is there with HDDs, but in my case machine fans are much louder when under load (always)

@alismart1010

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndreyLebrov Thanx for the quick response - makes sense. Keep up the great work. Very impressive.

I am in love with those LED revolving lights placed in your home studio...if possible please give some buying link for those

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/nKuCqtZvgr2XiM4.html

you're like Brazilian Ronaldo of CG

what's the difference between raspberry pi nas & these server?

How do you manage working with high secrecy projects , data theft risk with your teams and NAS storage? Besides your team signing NDA’s.

Привет! A какие мониторы за тобой стоят?

in which program does he make a video? Houdini, blender , Maya or Cinema ???

*Would you make video on your learning sources? What books, courses, sites you use?* Many people would profit from following your footsteps. I am pretty sure it won't be hard to make such episode, but pay off would be really big.

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

It would be a really short video. Google and KZread, no jokes

Are those fireflies in a jar in the beginning of the video just VFX or can you buy them? Does anyone know?

@Keji839

3 жыл бұрын

VFX. He comps them in. Very tasteful

Hey man, can you make a video explaining about render farms? And how to make it for your own DIY

you see his videos better just change speed to 1.25 :D

When I get a new computer, I will use my old computer as a NAS. I take a few drives and put in there. Flash TruenasCore onto it and the party can start.

Hey Andrey, i got a huge problem with the latest octane version - or let me say it's with all of them. I asked everywhere but even otoy wasn able to help... :/ hope u can maybe.. My Octane starts rendering all fine but when i finished the first frame it's not even saving... just keep rendering the first frame for ever - my longest try took 1h and i canceled after that. I deleted all materials from nativ c4d so only those octan materials left. Totaly done.. got no idea anymore. Hope you can help! P.S.: Maybe you need some specs - 1x RTX 3070 and AMD R9 3900XT 12x 4Ghz

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

Disable denoiser

@Syoska

3 жыл бұрын

I will try it when i'm back home from work - god bless you 🙏🏼🔥 i wasted 4h yesterday 😂

I miss the vids hope all is ok.

Amazing Video as always!! Would you be so kind please to tell, how big in size (GB, TB) can simulations in Houdini or in Cinema 4D get, for a professional project. I understand it all depends on the scene, delivery format and what exactly you are doing, but I would much appreciate if you could provide some example numbers. Many thanks ! Keep up the great work!

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

1TB sim is a normal thing for a very big sim. Mostly it’s much smaller stuff in size. It also depends on what channels you bake out. Difference can be unbelievable if you’re saving out just density, for example, or density, fuel and velocity. Velocity tends to take the most space

@nikolaostsimpetonidis4243

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndreyLebrov Many thanks for your prompt reply. Oh my God! As it seems I need to buy extra hard drive, or bigger in capacity. Will go with an external USB3 now as I am currently learning, (I am working with an ASUS TUF A15) and in time maybe I will invest in a synology small server :) Thank you again for our feedback and immediate response to my question. All the best!

Do these servers make audible noise when working? Like noise from the mechanical hard drives?

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

Yes they do. Depending on where they are placed it shouldn’t bother you though. Not louder than the workstation. In my case they’re right next to me, so yeah - I can hear them

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

Oh and of course if you’d use SSDs instead of HDDs there would be no noise at all

@arkenavetisyan7308

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndreyLebrov Thx Andrey. I have about 15TB of HDD's and they are the loudest part of my PC. Because of this I've decided to only buy SSD's in the future. Wish Synology would make a nice and small M.2 SSD server. Because I would totally buy that!

I have a Synology from 2009 and it's still running

What's up Andrey can't wait for the next video.... What's going on Bro...

Amazing work!! Do you have any cg course?

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Not yet, sorry :)

I'm not sure if having a vibrating speaker on top of a physical hard drive is such a great idea or not?

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

It’s not, but it’s okay if you’re not listening to music so that the furniture around vibrates )

👌👌👌👌

I just wonder ... Is that speaker above nas a good idea ? hmm

@alexwi8283

3 жыл бұрын

This is a bad idea in many ways, it looks amazing, however, speakers vibrate very strongly and emit magnetism both harmful to hard drives

Surely having the speakers over the magnetic drives might corrupt some data with those big ol' magnets in them? Otherwise great video!

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

Not listening music loud enough for any harm to be made but shouldn't have filmed it that way, you're right

What is a server?

interesting

I would strongly suggest you switch to synology's SHR2. If anything were to to happen to your NAS, ie. the atom bug that affected the 1815+ series, your raid5 array would be toast. SHR2 allows you to simply insert the pool drives into a new synology NAS and continue onwards with your data intact. I wouldn't touch raid5 in 2020. I lost a raid5 array 6 years ago in a qnap nas. 1 drive for redundancy when you're dealing with 12TB capacity drives is nightmare fuel in the event of a rebuild. Particularly so if the drives are from the same batch, then the probability of a second failure is high.

sigh. i wish have a server. i try making my own with 10+ yr computer and old routers, bash scripts and blender scripts and tbh. It is slow as duck just to use an extra few old computers

3:05 Magnet speakers above your drives.... whaaa??

@cm1584

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, was thinking the same thing. Maybe shielded speakers. Remember we used to have our loudspeaker next to our old “fat” tv, as a kid. And after some time it gave some interesting colour changes at the sides of the tv due to magnetic fields. Magnets + HHD not the best combo as far as I know. Liked the video! Good work!

Hi Andrey, I have a request for you, there are a lot of us who would like to switch to a 10g network. What really interests me is the data transfer speed, when we have caching disks, and when we don't. It is important to see how long we wait to load large files of a few GB, how long we wait for automatic storage. Personally, I have a studio of 7 people, we are planning more next year, such information would be more than useful. Thank you, if you have the opportunity to show speed in your work, I would be more than grateful. Greetings from the entire Setla studio in Serbia. We follow you closely!

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

I should say there are no miracles in terms of speeds, this setup allows to utilise large amount of space at the speed of a very fast SSD. When I’m doing terribly big sims it still takes its time to write the file. On average speeds are 450-600 with many files copying and up to 980 MB/s with single large files copying. This will most likely go a bit down with more and more people using the server simultaneously.

@petaravramovic7998

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndreyLebrov Thanks for your reply, We are currently users of a k-nap system with a 1 GB network system. That’s not enough for our business, but it’s definitely a good move. Your topic about the network shot me directly at the right time and gave me the idea to invest in some other solution. I agree that the main advantage of the NAS system is central storage and it incredibly improves workflow. What is really important to us is that when we work on large projects we want to have the feeling of downloading files from a computer. Lots of proxy files, big models on stage that have millions of polygons, all this directly slows down the work. I would like to know before I invest money that is not small, just as you mentioned when it is a test for graphics cards. I don't believe in anything until I try a realistic task. I'm sure other people want to know and see how gigabit files scattered in folders are loaded into our system as they work. Maybe I gave you an idea for a new topic. Thank you so much for everything you do for the Cgi community.

What if one of your employees decides to steal and sell your assets online?? Do you have some kind of protection from it??

@AndreyLebrov

3 жыл бұрын

Well it’s legally prosecuted, why would anyone want to deal with that 😄

Brother i need your logo intro tutorial... Please provide