I am in early planning stages for a small render farm...like 8 or 16 nodes.
Each node is a diskless PC that boots from an NFS server. The NFS server will be another PC. Nodes and NFS server will be on Gigabit Ethernet.
Will an SSD drive on the NFS server offer better performance over a traditional HDD? Or will I be too limited by the Gigabit Ethernet to notice a difference, and should go with the cheaper HDD?
Thanks!
Each node is a diskless PC that boots from an NFS server. The NFS server will be another PC. Nodes and NFS server will be on Gigabit Ethernet.
Will an SSD drive on the NFS server offer better performance over a traditional HDD? Or will I be too limited by the Gigabit Ethernet to notice a difference, and should go with the cheaper HDD?
Thanks!