Instead of setting up another NAS at my office (we have an intel one already) we just put together a cheap box (Celeron Core Solo chip, 512MB Ram) and threw Ubuntu 7.1 Server on it, and loaded it up with 500GB hard drives.
That sucker chews through files like nobody's business. The transfer rates we get are many times faster than the Intel NAS (both on Gigabit), and small files are copied blindingly fast, compared to sluggishly on the Intel.
I think we ended up spening $800 including 4 x 500GB WD Drives, so we had ~1.5TB of RAID5 redundant storage :)
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Instead of setting up another NAS at my office (we have an intel one already) we just put together a cheap box (Celeron Core Solo chip, 512MB Ram) and threw Ubuntu 7.1 Server on it, and loaded it up with 500GB hard drives.
That sucker chews through files like nobody's business. The transfer rates we get are many times faster than the Intel NAS (both on Gigabit), and small files are copied blindingly fast, compared to sluggishly on the Intel.
I think we ended up spening $800 including 4 x 500GB WD Drives, so we had ~1.5TB of RAID5 redundant storage :)