Might just want to buy a RAID card and some big drives then and use the openfiler / freenas type approach. Abe did this for personal use and has over 3TB in RAID 5 with not much cost. It's running on an ancient system but for just file storage who cares. I think it's a PIII??
Curtis McKay Network Administrator Belleville Township High School District 201 cmc...@bths201.org<mailto:cmc...@bths201.org> From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org [mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of Kyle Avooske Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 8:46 AM To: 'Tech-Geeks Mailing List' Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] NAS Storage Basically I just need a large storage space to offload some very large backups and storage for rarely used things like iso's. Kyle Avooske Asst. Network Technologist (618)254-7554 kavoo...@roxanaschools.org<mailto:kavoo...@roxanaschools.org> "Achieving Excellence with Passion, Pride, and Partnership" ________________________________ From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org [mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of Joshua Halls Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 5:12 PM To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] NAS Storage As Curtis mentioned it depends on what you want to do with it. You can homebrew a unit as well with enough HDs and a decent hardware raid card /w battery (if you want RAID 5). On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:03 PM, McKay, Curtis <cmc...@bths201.org<mailto:cmc...@bths201.org>> wrote: I think you really need to take a look at what you're buying it for. If you just need some extra storage for backups then Jason or David's suggestions are very good. You can spend quite a bit of money on NAS devices however that have all the RAID built in with high bandwidth iops too. I bought a simple NAS box at home for backup purposes and it will not read/write data faster than 20Mb. For personal backup purposes I don't really care, for high availability on your network with live data that's not going to cut it. Curtis McKay Network Administrator Belleville Township High School District 201 cmc...@bths201.org<mailto:cmc...@bths201.org> From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org<mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org> [mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org<mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org>] On Behalf Of Jason Livezey Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 2:14 PM To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] NAS Storage Older server, and just use Openfiler, FreeNAS, NASLite, Ubuntu...Whatever you feel like. JL On Oct 5, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Kyle Avooske wrote: We are looking at adding NAS storage to our network. What would you guys recommend for a good device? | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org<http://www.tech-geeks.org/> | Jason Livezey Director of Technology New Lenox School District #122 Cell: 815.693.9338 ACMT Certified ________________________________ THIS TRANSMISSION IS INTENDED AND RESTRICTED FOR USE BY THE ABOVE ADDRESSEE ONLY. IT MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR PRIVILEGED INFORMATION EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER FEDERAL OR STATE LAW. IN THE EVENT SOME OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY RECEIVES THIS TRANSMISSION, SAID RECIPIENT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT ANY DISSEMINATION, DISTRIBUTION, OR DUPLICATION OF THIS TRANSMISSION OR ITS CONTENTS IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU SHOULD RECEIVE THIS TRANSMISSION IN ERROR, PLEASE CALL US IMMEDIATELY AT 309.827.6031, DELETE THE FILE FROM YOUR SYSTEM, AND DESTROY ANY HARD COPIES OF THIS TRANSMISSION. THANK YOU. Bloomington Public Schools School District87 Bloomington, Illinois | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org<http://www.tech-geeks.org/> |
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