Scratch that. An immediate show stopping pitfall occurs to me: the necessity to match CPU/OS Architecture between primary server and replicate target. Doubtful that there are any consumer NAS products out there running linux on 64bit/intel
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Andrew Barnham <andrew.barn...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi > > I currently run a modest streaming replication target on a cheap, single > disk ASUS media center; replicating a 100GB PG database. > > I want to add RAID via a consumer grade NAS device. > > As far as I can tell consumer grade NAS devices these days appear to be > fairly rich & flexible embedded lniux/freebsd systems. > > Has anyone had any experience with running postgresql on the NAS device > itself? Which products? Any traps or pitfalls or integrity concerns about > such an arrangement? > > Andrew >