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[DaveNay]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Have you ever run a Network Attached Storage box before? I am hoping that by running our parts system file sharing off of there i can buy less server licences. )</font>

I have never run an NAS box, but you could easily put together a Linux box running as an SMB file server, and a couple of large hard drives. An old Pentium III with a network card, and a 100GB hard drive or two would be ideal. If the data is critical, you could even do software RAID on the server.

Dave

 

[rockyridgefarm]

I run a lot of Iomega NAS's They are great. They are strictly file servers and will not run any applications. (like sql...) I would NOT piece together an old machine or a bargain clone box as a parts system server. You don't need more headaches...

 

[DaveNay]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I would NOT piece together an old machine or a bargain clone box as a parts system server. You don't need more headaches... )</font>

Why do you feel this would cause headaches? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif I have an old and perfectly functional Pentium Pro PC with 512 MB RAM that has been running as a file server for a windows network for the last five years. There has been absolutely no maintenance on this system in that time frame with the exception of shutting it down and turning it back on in the event of a power outage that lasts longer than the UPS capacity.

What do you feel is inside a NAS box that makes it more reliable than a scratch built system? There is a motherboard, a hard drive, a power supply, an operating system, a network adapter and usually a web browser for remote administration. A NAS device IS a PC in a box.

Also, how do you address redundancy in a NAS system (I have no usage experience with them)? Can you do RAID? Distribute your data across multiple devices? I truely don't know the answer to this part.

Dave

 

[rockyridgefarm]

They are RAID5. Two on a rack is pretty redundant.

If you are happy with what you have, more power to ya.

I have made my living doing IS since 1980. I support a fair number of servers , one with a parts operation.

No thank you.