Good morning all: So this is kind of a generalized question but I¹m going to throw it out here anyways! I have a rack of 2950¹s with 15k SAS drives on PERC controllers. These boxes work great, no problems.
Until now, my usage of these machines has always been specifically application targeted and I¹ve deployed in Windows and Linux. Of course I¹m partial to Linux. I¹ve never worried about multi-platform client support before. Now, what I want and need to do it build a high performance storage system out of some of these machines. They will not be clustered or load balanced or anything like that. Each box will be completely stand-alone and independent of the other (different boxes, different customers). So... I have x numbers of drives on in a RAID5 array for y number of gigabytes of disk space. My question is, how should I go about setting up a high performance storage system that will support multiple clients (ie Windows, MacOS and Unix) but be very very fast. I¹ve tried FreeNAS, OpenFiler, ClarkConnect and ClearOS (newer ClarkConnect) and I¹m just not seeing the performance I need. The problem I see with these solutions is that sharing files to a Windows box, the performance is ok but not great. However sharing files to a Mac or Linux box (via smb, cifs or nfs) just flat sucks. FTP works fine but then again, using FTP, Active Directory authentication is so slow it¹s almost unbearable. Any recommendations??? Of course I would prefer open source but if I have to pony up a few bucks to get some kind of a commercial product that¹ll do what I need, I will. All the boxes have dual GigE connections that are trunked to the switches, so effectively 2GB of bandwidth coming from each box. Also all the boxes have 8 (or more) GB of RAM, so, hardware performance isn¹t so much an issue. Thanks! -b
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