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Being an Event Videographer one runs into hefty space |
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requirments very quickly. |
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I'm running 4 machines.... 3 are loaded for video editing and other |
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graphics intensive stuff like photoshop and all the adobe tools. |
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They have large drives but very quickly I've begun to need more |
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massive storage accessable to all. |
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My main desktop is gentoo linux but it doesn't figure largely in the |
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video work. |
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I'm looking at NAS [Network attached storage] appliances and finding |
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they are either too simple and small or too expensive. |
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Anyone here using a linux based solution for this kind of need? |
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Any input on this would be most welcome. |
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I'm thinking of getting a cheapish machine at 3.2 Ghz or so with a |
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motherboard that allows at least 4 HDD maybe as many as 6. |
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Using gentoo on the box for networking and it must have at least 2 |
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gigabit eithernet adapters. I guess serving the windows boxes thru |
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smb. |
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The drives would be NTFS filesystems. |
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Are there known problems with this kind of setup? Like maybe samba |
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would choke on moving huge amounts of data or something? |
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What raid configurations might be good for this? |
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