On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:35 PM, John Jardine <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Cameron, > > I saw your mail re NAS but don't have time to respond to it properly. > > My comments go to the energy efficiency of using a "PC" vs something > more dedicated. I like the smaller dedicated NAS boxen because of their > relative energy efficiency relative to leaving a PC on all the time. > > If that is not an issue for you then I'd be leaning towards OpenNAS - I > briefly used that 18mos ago.
Thanks for the tip on OpenNAS...was one I had not come across. I did actually start thinking of some other questions around NAS as well. What would be the best recommendation for a filesystem & stuff like that? Currently all my data is residing on a NTFS formatted IDE drive in my Server 2003 box. If I am potentially going multi-platform, am I better sticking with a Linx format (ext3, etc.) & then build samba share for windows & share for mac's as well? I would like to maximize teh effectiveness & flexibility of the technology while minimizing the amount of work I need to do. Maybe I don't understand all of the bits & bites but would I essentially be making 3 sets or shares to get the info out to all 3 (or more) platforms? Seems like a lot of work. I also have some concerns/questions about the syncronization of data btwn platforms as well. Case in point I am likely moving to GNUCash in part because it is cross-platform, but all because of the portable version I can carry on my USB stick. This is so I can enter information when I am away from main computer & my thought is that I would come home...press a button and sync to teh main database. you cold easily extend this to other settings, prefernces plugins, etc. (i.e. Firefox, Thunderbird, Evolution (Windows & Linux), etc.). It would be ideal to serve everything from from mount point. Agaian...maybe I am missing the boat on some of this. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
