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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. > > 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 |
