Re: Netgear ReadyNAS Pro?

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Pluta wrote:
> As soon as you get into video, you'll blow through a terabyte.  

Probably, but a) I'm not very interested in video at the moment, and b) I wouldn't put video on a NAS device anyways (except for archiving).  Video editing wants a lot of bandwidth, so I would put that kind of thing on a local disk (or disk array). 

> 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.

Well, I wouldn't make a workstation (of any kind) a primary file server ... there are a lot of systems that would be depending on the file server and the possibility of a workstation rebooting (either planned or unplanned) are higher than I would be comfortable with.  Do you think the people who depend on the list archives would like it if the web content went away anytime I installed new software? <grin/>

david