Which computer to take for a very narrow task?

Question

Iron

Happy New Year to all of us!)
I am engaged in video filming, quite often I upload the footage to the customer's server, and before NG there was an unpleasant situation with the provider, because of which I had to keep the laptop turned on at home all week - including I am engaged in editing , and sometimes I need to travel with the workstation to the site, so I decided to get a separate box to make it more convenient.
The tasks are simple: -
upload footage to external drives
- backup external drives
- drain material through an FTP client
There is a lot of work during the season, so I would like to choose a machine that is not quite a vegetable, but when I started to study the topic, I just got more confused.
I need:
-at least 3 usb3 ports
-lan port
-sd reader is optional, but I really want to)
- so that 1tb goes to an external drive in 2 hours in a maximum of two streams (I usually use total commander, immediately dividing the material into destination folders on an external drive)
- so that you can safely leave the setup enabled 24 / 7 for a month
At the same time, I would like to spend the minimum amount of money, as usual;) a comfortable budget for a box without an wasp license and peripherals is 10k₽
I only look at what can be bought in a store, because there is a fad about used equipment.
I would globally describe myself as a hand-ass, but there are comrades who I can turn to if a normal solution requires assembly from components.

I would really appreciate any advice ;)

Answer 1

That is, you want a box with a display that you can use permanently on and periodically cut off external drives to it? Or does it need to be delivered to the customer?
You won’t find a new one for 10k right now, adequate.
What should be inside? Also what kind of discs?
I would then suggest building a mini-PC just ... this is the cheapest option will come out

Answer 2

synology ... with access via the web... but, for 10K - very modest models in which one or two disks, and no more ... But if you put 14-16-18Tb each, it's enough for a long time.

Answer 3

I recommend reviewing the budget three or four times, then the realism of the task will increase significantly.
Can you imagine an interface through which you can transfer 150 MB / s to an external drive, in accordance with your wishes? And what disk should be on the other side in order to master such a write speed?

Answer 4

Isn't it easier to rent a server 24/7?
BO:
1. The machine for the constant file race should be with a fast read / write speed.
2. And this is a good mother, good drives and a good power supply.
3. Eating energy such a setup will be quite normal for a month ...
Only it still needs to be collected ... Forget about 10k. Collect a piece of shit)
The task is a bit strange to be honest. You still want to have access to everything at any time 24/7. So the Internet still plays a role. So why then burden yourself with a piece of iron at home, if you can take it somewhere?
The same cloud.

so that 1TB goes to an external drive in 2 hours in a maximum of two streams

To do this, you need to:
1. Have such external drives that are capable of delivering at such a speed.
2. Have a PC that can record at that speed.
Only SSDs have these speeds. And an SSD with such a bunch of memory costs sooooo decently.

Answer 5

For 10t.r. you can't find anything by increasing the budget by 1.5 times:
I strongly do not recommend buying a ready-made NAS, a slow, limited-function device ... although you can probably find solutions for the money.
The cheapest and most affordable hardware in the modern realities of scarcity, capable of operating at speeds of 100 + Mb / s, is smartphones(laugh laugh), choose outdated mid-end solutions, for example, xiaomi redme note 8 pro can be taken for 15t.r.-18t.r. with a 64GB disk (for 18t.r. - 128GB) and with a memory card, some can reach up to a terabyte. You will have to suffer a little with the software for the purposes in question, but if the customer is ready to install syncting at his place, then the problem will be solved in principle in the most effective and free way (the smartphone will automatically pick up changes from the laptop on the local network almost instantly and then upload them to the customer via the Internet in the background It works both ways, by the way.
For about the same money, maybe more, you can assemble a machine using outdated technologies, noisy, energy-consuming, but... am3+ motherboard socket ~4t.r., amd fx4300 processor ~4t.r., RAM ~2t.r., disk ~ 6t.r. power supply ~ 3t.r. case ~1t.r. ~ 20+t.r. The software here is the most universal, you can also install syncting.
More or less modern hardware for money starts from 30-40t.r.

Answer 6

for 10 thousand is certainly unrealistic. for this amount of a new one, it’s better not to buy anything better than a calculator now, not to mention the fact that there was something from the requirements voiced.
and so you can look for a nettop like Intel NUC or a cheaper Chinese analogue like https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000803728605.html
it also has a portable monitor for 10 thousand. in
total, for 20 thousand you can assemble a light and compact machine that you can throw into your bag and take it with you.
Well, or a laptop with a sufficient number of ports, they often make 2 full-sized ones, plus one in the form of type-c.
cheap - HP 14s-dq3003ur
And from the junk easily, any old computer if only there was a pci-e connector, an expansion card with USB3.0 ports into it and pour whatever you like, you can also insert several card readers there to merge data from several cards at once