I need storage for about 40 users x about 10 gigs each, so 400 gigs or more. I'm unfortunately utterly ignorant in this area. I've googled around & found some very expensive raid array solutions. My budget is around $1500. I have a mixed lab of PCs running w2k and SGs running IRIX (plus some servers running Redhat), kind of a shoe-string operation in the UH art dept. Users want to log in & access their space from any workstation.
What sort of google search should I do to get up to speed in this area? Should I just buy a cheap PC & put two big hard drives in it & share with NFS & samba? NFS, samba, webdav, other? scsi or IDE? homemade raid? How to evaluate reliability? There are a lot of issues here I haven't had to deal with before. All help appreciated. TDB
