On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 04:52 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/22/2012 10:17 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > > But if you multiply the price of five Netgear NV+ (which each holds four > > disks) ~ CHF 300.-- each then this isn't what I'd call cheap. > > And even if your self built (take lots of pride in that achievement BTW) > Norco solution is slightly more expensive, you have a large number of > advantages, not least of which is increased performance. You can also > have all your files under one share/mapping where that would be 5 shares > using the ready made NAS boxen. And you intentionally built it leaving > some performance on the table, for increased flexibility WRT expansion > with one filesystem tree. > > You're getting ~60MB/s server <> laptop now (which is pretty nice for a > laptop mechanical drive). Drop an SSD into the laptop and you should be > seeing closer to 90-100MB/s, assuming you're cabled with GbE and the > NICs on both ends are decent. > > > And with the speed and possibilities it gives me I consider my solution > > better than what I could get from a ready to use NAS. > > Amen. ;) > > Just imagine what it would do if you started from scratch with 20 of the > Black drives in md/RAID6 w/a 32K chunk, and XFS tuned to the stripe. > You'd easily hit 1GB/s streaming reads, with streaming writes probably > >500MB/s. Depends on your CPU. I forgot which one is in the Asus board.
You're absolutely right what the pride concerns :-) And as well the cost. But I could use the old mobo, CPU (i3 550) so this looks a bit better for the Norco solution. Btw: I'm still waiting for this damping mats :-/ Can only take some more weeks... Cheers Ramon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1343059072.4271.4.camel@hoferr-desktop.hofer.rummelring