NAS Server

[Dan Ritter]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 09:53:55AM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 12/03/2010 09:39 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 07:09:44AM -0500, Chris O'Connell wrote:
> >> Hi Dan,
> >>
> >> I think 4TB should be fine, but would prefer 8.
> >>
> >> Performance is not an issue, this is simply to archive files.
> >>
> >> Price... well, I'm willing to spend money on whatever people say is the best
> >> recomendation.
> >>
> >> Physical... something quiet would be nice.  And something small.  I like the
> >> size of the consumer based NAS solutions, they're pretty small...
> > I would recommend something like the Acer Aspire Easystore,
> > which is an Atom-based PC with four hot-swap SATA slots.
> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16859321014
> >
> > For $330 including the first 2TB disk, it's cheap, small and
> > quiet. 
> >
> > I would also rip out the Windows Home Server installation and
> > put in my favorite distro, or perhaps FreeNAS.
> >
> >
> I would question the performance of this as a NAS device. While Atom is
> an excellent processor, you do need some performance depending on your
> needs.

The stated case is backup. Gigabit's max is 125MB/s; each disk
might be good for 70MB/s. An Atom should be fine. It's likely to
be faster than what's in a consumer NAS.

-dsr-

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