Hardware and Storage Plan

Part of the 8K Open Studio public archive scaffold.

Performance-first architecture

Capture → ingest → server → DAS → 10GbE/100GbE backbone → CUDA workstations → archive

The goal is to remove bottlenecks from 8K/VR180 authoring, recovery imaging, AI-assisted media work, and public documentation.

Major decisions

• Return toy gaming mini PC if it lacks the right server-class I/O.
• Prefer Thunderbolt 4, PCIe slots, 10GbE minimum, and a 100GbE upgrade path.
• Use DAS for many drives and keep hot mechanical drives out of the GPU workstation.
• Use separate recovery handling for damaged drives: image first, recover from image.

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