On 12/25/12 19:50, Eric Furman wrote: > Not long ago Nick did go into some detail about this very thing. > I don't remember how long ago or what the thread was about, > but you might find it in the archives. > Just search for Nick Holland. Anything you find will be worth > reading in any case. :) >
*blush* Do not feed The Ego. :) Probably thinking of this thread: http://marc.info/?t=117689108200011&r=1&w=2 and my two contributions to it. A number of other people provided some good (and some bad) comments, too...read through 'em all. You get to decide which are useful and which are not, and what is right and what is wrong. Keep in mind that thread is almost six years old...500GB was a big disk back then. However, I'm still quite proud of that system. (and in case you were wondering, my employment ended with that employer about four months later. That also makes a great story, but quite off-topic. They did replace my system with a proprietary system that cost many times as much). Nick. > On Tue, Dec 25, 2012, at 04:03 PM, Sebastian Neuper wrote: >> 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>
