Re: Budget network attached storage?

["christopher purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>]

I think the terrastation is fine as long as you support jumbo frames on
your
switch /network cards - of course for an existing network this is a
limitation but I bought a gigabit switch for around £80 that did and it
works very nicely indeed.

HTH

Chris


>From: Joseph Heenan <joseph-l@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Budget network attached storage?
>Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:35:12 +0100
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>In message <20050829233906.C16563@xxxxxxx>
>           James Fidell <james@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Quoting Mark Ryder (mark@xxxxxxx):
> >
> > > I have 3TB of storage on my network and have pretty much run
out.
> > > I'm looking for additional NAS as well now for a DVD server
(I've
> > > ripped my DVD images).   Whilst the NSLU-2 is a good unit,
I'll
> > > probably go for something like a Buffalo Terrastation this
time,
> > > although the price is daunting at £600 inc VAT for 1TB.
> >
> > I recently did some testing for a client who wanted to use a
Terastation
> > for backups.  The performance was horrendously bad.  If you're
mostly
> > using it for read access then perhaps it might be ok, but I
couldn't
> > recommend it if you're writing a lot of data regularly.
>
>Was that in a RAID 5 configuration or all configurations?
>
>Joseph
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>Joseph Heenan, Glasgow, UK              http://www.heenan.me.uk/
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