> 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?
I've never used this myself. It was highly recommended on another list: http://www.xyratex.com/products/storage/index.asp and was recommended on this thread: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-05/msg01564.php Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- [email protected] mailing list
