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 1Gg3Vx-0003GD-D1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:11:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kA3I9ChG015138; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 18:09:12 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA3I6TNf031550 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 18:06:29 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FDC464235 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 18:06:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.119 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.119 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.481, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6cjE3GmjxtKj for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 18:06:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 128C0642CB for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 18:06:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gg3QJ-0006vg-FD for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:05:47 +0100 Received: from c-67-163-25-192.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([67.163.25.192]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:05:47 +0100 Received: from reader by c-67-163-25-192.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:05:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT: NAS] linux based storage solutions Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:05:27 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: 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 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-163-25-192.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GW2jejrKxOU8EwUrWan96igpcOY= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 6fd24a43-62ed-44d2-a131-98866705c133 X-Archives-Hash: 327a0efa96acb4e8079c2bd114cc5af8 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? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list