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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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I've never used this myself. It was highly recommended on another list: |
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http://www.xyratex.com/products/storage/index.asp |
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and was recommended on this thread: |
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http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-05/msg01564.php |
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Regards, |
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Richard Broersma Jr. |
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