My first thought to be honest . <| sep |> I have a pen for vaporizing dry buds . Im looking at prefilled oil pens to replace my flower usage for a little bit <| sep |> I support Spez remaining in place . Better a compromised and fatally weakened enemy than a clean one who is empowered to do what a compromised enemy cannot . <| sep |> I think that might have been MW 2 <| sep |> MmmkayThanks , was just curious <| sep |> The way they treat the mentally ill is fucking shocking . <| sep |> I wrote this up for a friend of mine . It ' s my recommendation for how to setup the network for a small vfx mograph studio . TLDR Go with a NAS for your file server . Don ' t use SSDs in it , just set it up with regular HDDs in a RAID 10 configuration and it will be plenty fast . Here ' s a quick rundown of what I ' d consider to be a sort of optimum small studio setupA computer running Windows Server . This could be a tiny machine like an Intel NUC link below . This computer would get used for Active Directory , DNS , DHCP Active Directory manages Users , Groups and Permissions , DNS basically converts the IP address of machines to computer names like Workstation One on the network , DHCP is the handing out of dynamically assigned IP Address . A filer . This is your file server . It could be a NAS like a Synology or Qnap . The trend lately is to use a filer that utilizes ZFS or something similar , which is a file system that can prevent something called bit rot or silent corruption . Basically it checks to make sure your files aren ' t getting corrupted by bits randomly flipping from 0 to 1 or vice versa . The filer should have at least one 10 GbE port . If you don ' t want to go with a Synology or Qnap NAS , you could have a look at FreeNas . com or their professional sister company ixsystems . comA network switch that has few 10 GbE ports and a bunch of 1 GbE ports . You would connect the filer to the 10 GbE port and the workstations to the 1 GbE ports . There are some old Dell Powerconnect switches on ebay that are cheap that fit this description . A backup NAS . This could be another Synology , Qnap , or FreeNas unit on your network . You would run nightly backups of your filer to this device . You ' d want this device to have at least 1 . 5 x the storage or your filer . So if your filer is 20 TB , your backup NAS should be at least 30 TB . It would be helpful if this NAS also had a 10 GbE port . A license server . This computer handles your floating software licenses . This could also be run on an Intel NUC . An LTO tape drive for archiving projects connected to a Mac that has Bru installed . Some render farm management software . I would recommend either Deadline or Qube ! You could also have a look at Smedge uberware . net , which is what I ' m using . But I like Deadline thinkboxsoftware . com or Qube ! pipelinefx . com a bit better . If you go with Qube ! get the Designer Package Your license server could be used to run the render management software . With this setup you ' d still have to be concerned with ransomware . One solution would be to get some backup software that does incremental backups to tape . Incremental backups do a full backup and then only backup the changes after that , which is fast . So you could run a full backup of one of your active projects to tape on a weekend and then run incremental backups of the project throughout the week you don ' t want to run incremental backups forever . This would be a way to protect your active projects against ransomware , since it won ' t hit tape backups . Backup Exec , Retrospect and Acronis will all do incremental backups to tape . Ideally you would run some 10 GbE fiber cables from your switch to your editing bays , but it ' s not totally critical . Anyways , that ' s my ideal small studio setup . Of course , my studio setup is not quite that cool yet ! Intel NUC