> 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 -- [email protected] mailing list
