On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 22:43:54 -0500 Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote:
> On 12/22/12 07:54, Friedrich Locke wrote: > ... > > But for other services i don't have now what i could use. A example: i need > > a file system that must expand by adding more machine in the network in a > > simple way. > > in plain English: "I'm not thinking out the design carefully, so I'm > going to rely on fancy shit to haul my ass out of the fire when the > predictable (and not so predictable) happens. > > You don't need that for your problem, you need that for the solution you > came up with for your problem. Your solution is wrong. So, please let's go more in detail. If you want a openbsd fileserver with a few terra bytes storage, secured by a raid; the file server should handle a lot of media files in future and should provide them via network; what motherboard, cpu, network and (perhaps) raid controller would you buy, to assure, that it is best supported by openbsd, reliable, easy to maintain and costs less then 0,5k? In our company, we purchased a media file server (48TB for 40k+) a year ago based on Linux and it sucks. Promised features only work sporadic, and to make it work, there are workarounds around workarounds. But I don't want to get more in detail. I think, nobody of you heard of Avid or Editshare or work alot with the Adobe Suite. Now, this server is almost full and we will have to buy an expansion. Exact the scenario, Nick explained. I'm looking for an openbsd solution for my home since I first throw a glance at our new expensive 'thing'. But I don't know, if I should follow the blog entry "build a home server with openbsd 3.9" or the 'howto make a fileserver with openbsd' dated 2 years ago. So what hardware would you buy for an openbsd file server, to get it fast enough to provide hd video media assets via network? Which set is a robust and good solution and tested and proven by yourself? Best, Sebastian. -- Sebastian Neuper <pha...@gmx.de>
