Re: Netgear ReadyNAS Pro?

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Gibbs wrote:
> At the moment 1.5tb would be more than enough for me ... the critical thing I'm looking for is a reasonable NAS device with RAID support.  Right now my Linux machines don't have any DASD protection other than daily backup to a USB drive with an occasional copy to tape.
>   
As soon as you get into video, you'll blow through a terabyte.  If you 
have any plans on going that direction, you might consider what my 
brother is doing: he's building a video processing box from the ground 
up.  The reason is that video processing is ridiculously disk intensive, 
so local fast drives are a must.   And of course, it will be RAID 
capable (you may recall some posts I made earlier this month about 
trying to recover a dead drive - that's what prompted this project for him).

Once you have such a machine, there's then nothing stopping you from 
using that device as your NAS for other machines in your network.  It's 
a little more expensive route, but it kills two birds: you have a nice 
NAS device and one seriously powerful multimedia workstation.

Joe