Hardware Requirement

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Hello everybody.
iam sory before for my stupid question here.

I have setup on my old laptop with very minimum specs.
My OS is windows 10.
I configured this orthanc using postgresql.
It was succesfully can received images from other modality(iam using onis to simulate).
I also test using ngrok for internet acces and working fine

I want test it at the hospital. with capacity 4TB.
for 4 modality. CT, MR, CR and DR.

My question is what should i choose for the hardware if i will build new PC?

  1. Higher processor specs or core number of the processor?

  2. for the RAM, 16GB DDR3 or 8Gb DDR4

  3. There is any special configuration for the database? because i only make a new database and new user with password on the postgresql

Thankyou

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This doesn’t directly address your questions about hardware, but you might want to read through this also. Probably also need to decide if you want to use and manage your own hardware on-site or deploy the whole thing in the Cloud, considering performance, cost, maintenance and resources.

https://book.orthanc-server.com/faq/scalability.html

https://book.orthanc-server.com/users/replication.html

Stephen S.

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Thank you for your advice

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Hi

The answer is simple, have a computer as powerful as possible.

  1. The more cores the machine has, the better Orthanc will work.
  2. 32GB memory is enough.
  3. SSD hard drive and as big as possible.
  4. 1GB network card or optical fiber.

If the computer is going to be dedicated only for the use of Orthanc, I recommend that you install the simplest operating system you can (but 64bit version). In my case, I have Orthanc installed on computers with Windows 7. Previously, I used Windows Server 2012 and Orthanc was slow to work, and it consumed a lot of computer resources.

In my case, I have 4 virtual computers with Orthanc installed with Windows 7 64bits, with 8 cores per server, 32GB of memory, 1GB network cards and 1GB SSD hard drives. However, the data of the studies is stored on a 40TB NAS, of which I have 20TB occupied (I have stored more than 400,000 studies and it takes me a maximum of 8 seconds to search).

I hope the explanation will help you, regards

William

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Hi William

Thank you for your kind response. Your answer is very detailed. And this is the information I was looking for. you are willing to tell me about the real conditions in the field. once again thank you very much
Btw, are you using raid 1 0?

Pada Rabu, 27 Juli 2022 pukul 18.42.35 UTC+7 williamsa...@gmail.com menulis:

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Hi

All my system is prepared in raid 10, both the servers and the NAS, that way I have all the Orthanc protected against failures. As additional security, at dawn (when the clinic is not working) I backup the index files on an external drive because I use SQLite and those files cannot be reindexed.

With all these precautions, I have not had a problem in 7 years. The only time I had a failure was with the indexes and the solution was simple, reinstall the file damaged by the copy of the morning and re-export the studies of the day.

Good luck.

William