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Subject: Re: [AE] OT: NAS shopping
From: Steve Oakley <steveo@practicali.com>
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Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 02:19:27 -0500
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FreeNas, -100.  last time it was 35mb/sec vs fedora 12 100mb/sec.. never =
mind lack of GUI and other modern civilities.

just use whatever flavor of OS x will work on your machine and don't =
bother looking back. used G3, G4's as servers in far more reliable / =
less config problems than linux... and really I sort of like linux

S

On Aug 10, 2013, at 1:40 AM, Mike Drew <mdrew@thepostlounge.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> HTH
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> Mike
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> 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.
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> I was looking at the Synology 1513+ or 1813+ -seem to be nice little =
units and I think that's my frontrunner so far.
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> Also looking at the ReadyNAS line or building up a FreeNAS box or =
something like that.
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> 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.
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> TIA