Return-Path: Received: from mail.thepostlounge.com ([123.100.135.154] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 5171009 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Sat, 10 Aug 2013 08:28:25 +0200 X-Footer: dGhlcG9zdGxvdW5nZS5jb20= User-Agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/14.3.4.130416 Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 16:40:05 +1000 Subject: Re: [AE] OT: NAS shopping Message-ID: Thread-Topic: [AE] OT: NAS shopping In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 Thread-Index: Ac6VlHMn5DIQtThKT/OPGJZ+5Z4CDQ== From: Mike Drew Sender: Mike Drew To: After Effects Mail List Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-KOGabRqihvMD6kEjRCX1" --=-KOGabRqihvMD6kEjRCX1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I highly recommend FreeNas, I turned an old Avid LANSHARE into a FreeNas and it serves data over the network about 3 times faster than it did as an Avid Unity. Make sure you run the drive array as ZFS. HTH Mike Hey all - looking for recommendations on a NAS that would be a good fit for a small studio, but it would see regular use of 4-8 artists I'd say. Doing VFX CG rendering and compositing, HD & 2k. Gigabit ethernet. I was looking at the Synology 1513+ or 1813+ -seem to be nice little units and I think that's my frontrunner so far. Also looking at the ReadyNAS line or building up a FreeNAS box or something like that. Just curious if anyone has any tips for or against anything along that line of thinking? This will be my first NAS and I just want something that's headache free. TIA --=-KOGabRqihvMD6kEjRCX1 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I highly recommend FreeN= as, I turned an old Avid LANSHARE into a FreeNas and it serves data over th= e network about 3 times faster than it did as an Avid Unity. Make sure you = run the drive array as ZFS.

HTH

Mike

Hey all - looking for recommendations on a NAS= that would be a good fit for a small studio, but it would see regular use = of 4-8 artists I'd say. Doing VFX CG rendering and compositing, HD &a= mp; 2k. Gigabit ethernet.

I was looking at the Synology = 1513+ or 1813+ -seem to be nice little units and I think that's my frontrun= ner so far.

Also looking at the ReadyNAS line or building up a= FreeNAS box or something like that.

Just curious if anyone ha= s any tips for or against anything along that line of thinking? This = will be my first NAS and I just want something that's headache free.

TIA

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