On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 04:01, Chintalapani Ram Krishna Reddy <[email protected]> wrote: > I am new to dspace. I had recently installed a dspace system. I would > like to keep videos about 3000 of them into dspace. I am having > a 2TB Seagate Internal SATA Hard disk where the videos are stored. > DSpace installation is on another disk (80GB) both connected to the > same system. Is it possible to use the hard disk with around 20 users > trying to access the videos or I have to go for Network Attached > Storage. If so how to configure DSpace with network attached storage.
Hello Ramakrishna, DSpace itself doesn't care about the underlying storage technology as long as it can be presented as a filesystem. Of course, then there are speed considerations. Regarding speed, 20 simultaneous users reading large files like videos sounds like a lot for SATA. You should test the load and consider buying at least 1 additional disk and use RAID 0 or RAID 1, or even better 3 additional disks for RAID 10 or RAID 01. They don't have to be 2 TB but they all have to be the same size, this is for enhancing read speed. You should also be aware that when you import the items to DSpace, dspace creates a copy of those files with its own directory structure and filenames. I'm just telling you because it wasn't obvious if those 20 users already have other means of access to those files and you're adding DSpace, or you meant 20 users will access the files via DSpace. In the later case, of course you can delete the imported files from the DSpace machine. Regards, ~~helix84 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
