Re: Network attached storage and backup
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 13:55, Aaron wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> said,
> > > [snip]
> >
> > Specifics. We need much more.
> >
> > How much performance do you need? I.e., how many users will be
> > hitting it at the same time, what kind of apps run on the box, etc?
>
> Just me. Maybe myself and one other user. I don't need a lot of
> performance once it's up and running. It's network attached, so I
> don't really need more disk throughput than I can get out of my
> 100Base-TX network connection.
Ok, well that's easy enough to do.
> > When you say "100+ GB", do you mean 100-150GB, or something *much*
> > larger?
>
> Between 100 and 300 gigs, I guess. I have almost 200 gigs of data that
> I'd be storing and backing up, but I can predict a need for more
> storage in the future.
Is this a database, or your MPEG2/MP3/JPEG collection, or
what? I.e.:
Does it change a lot, or will you only be adding new stuff?
Can it be segmented easily?
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