From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gg5n9-0004rq-AD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:37:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kA3KZ7TC014242; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:35:07 GMT Received: from srvexch-01.mcaschool.local (mail.mcaschool.net [24.239.210.32]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA3KWboM013006 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:32:38 GMT X-Ninja-PIM: Scanned by Ninja X-Ninja-AttachmentFiltering: (no action) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] [OT: NAS] linux based storage solutions X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 15:32:36 -0500 Message-ID: <17CD9CE4C0FA574A8B29EF02D49B385D2A953D@srvexch-01.mcaschool.local> In-Reply-To: Thread-Topic: [gentoo-user] [OT: NAS] linux based storage solutions Thread-Index: Acb/cvROw5/rahhbSDyojxWzHxA4AAAE9AvQ From: "Timothy A. Holmes" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id kA3KWboM013006 X-Archives-Salt: dad35816-b70e-4c61-9bfa-4aad287b08a8 X-Archives-Hash: d4830c3c85fc1957984d50b5689c6060 > Being an Event Videographer one runs into hefty space > requirments very quickly. > > I'm running 4 machines.... 3 are loaded for video editing and > other graphics intensive stuff like photoshop and all the adobe tools. > > They have large drives but very quickly I've begun to need > more massive storage accessable to all. > > My main desktop is gentoo linux but it doesn't figure largely > in the video work. > > I'm looking at NAS [Network attached storage] appliances and > finding they are either too simple and small or too expensive. > > Anyone here using a linux based solution for this kind of need? > > Any input on this would be most welcome. > > I'm thinking of getting a cheapish machine at 3.2 Ghz or so > with a motherboard that allows at least 4 HDD maybe as many as 6. > > Using gentoo on the box for networking and it must have at > least 2 gigabit eithernet adapters. I guess serving the > windows boxes thru smb. > > The drives would be NTFS filesystems. > > Are there known problems with this kind of setup? Like maybe > samba would choke on moving huge amounts of data or something? > What raid configurations might be good for this? We have a small video editing setup here (one machine running premier) my storage server is a gentoo samba server, but I use it for nearline storage rather than online storage as ive had trouble in the past (>1.5 ybp) with it not transferring fast enough to keep the rendering engine happy -- there have been several itinerations of premier and at least one of samba since then, so I cant speak to current capabiliites, but id like to give it a wack again. Please contact me offlist and prehaps we can colaborate a little bit to see what we can work out Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list