On Thursday 19 January 2006 12:35, Andrew Close wrote: > On 1/10/06, Jonathan Tidmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/9/06, Jonathan Tidmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There are some NAS appliances out there like the Buffalo TeraStation or > > > > the Infrant > > > > > > > > Don't let the glass fall on your keyboard, luckily it was empty. > > > > I've been eyeing the Infrant ReadyNAS 600 at > > http://www.infrant.com/products_ReadyNAS600.htm > > has anyone used/looked at this option: http://www.freenas.org/ > at first glance it looks like a live cd BSD DIY NAS Solution.
Another option might be OpenFiler, http://www.openfiler.org/, which is a RHEL3/CentOS3-based DIY NAS distro. I've played with it some, but found that I'd rather use a full distro w/a 2.6 kernel for what I do. > would an older system (Pentium) set up as a software RAID/NFS box be > able to handle multiple recordings from MythTv if it was only used for > storage/playback? Should be all about the system's I/O capabilities. If you can get the system read/write performance good enough ("good enough" depends on how many simultaneous streams of which type you want to move about), there ain't all that much for the cpu to do. I've got a dual PIII/450 system that sits about 95% idle the majority of the time, cpu-wise, but does a TON of I/O without a problem. I've also got a dual PIII/600 that I ran as my master backend for quite a while without a problem, handling multiple HD and SD streams at once (I retired it for a faster machine to get faster commercial-cutting and transcoding, not due to any I/O issues). -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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