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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 |
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> other 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 |
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> more massive storage accessable to all. |
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> My main desktop is gentoo linux but it doesn't figure largely |
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> in the video work. |
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> I'm looking at NAS [Network attached storage] appliances and |
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> finding 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 |
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> with a 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 |
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> least 2 gigabit eithernet adapters. I guess serving the |
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> windows boxes thru 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 |
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> samba 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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We have a small video editing setup here (one machine running premier) |
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my storage server is a gentoo samba server, but I use it for nearline |
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storage rather than online storage as ive had trouble in the past (>1.5 |
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ybp) with it not transferring fast enough to keep the rendering engine |
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happy -- there have been several itinerations of premier and at least |
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one of samba since then, so I cant speak to current capabiliites, but id |
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like to give it a wack again. Please contact me offlist and prehaps we |
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can colaborate a little bit to see what we can work out |
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Timothy A. Holmes |
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IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher |
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Medina Christian Academy |
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A Higher Standard... |
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Jeremiah 33:3 |
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Jeremiah 29:11 |
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Esther 4:14 |
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