u/sensibleb

Our company (~25 employees, about 10 of us using CAD) has an on-site server that holds all our dwgs, regularly backed up offsite by our IT company. Our server is reaching EOL in December and we're reviewing quotes for a replacement.

We mainly work with AutoCAD, but are doing more in Revit. We tend to work on projects individually, so aside from opening and saving, there's not much bandwidth required.

My question is: with Revit, do projects run 100% locally (like AutoCAD), or is there ongoing data transfer to/from the server? We're trying to gauge how much horsepower we'll need. We're doubling capacity from 16Tb to 32Tb (RAID 5), but do we need to worry about read/write bottlenecks on the drives themselves?