Re: Netgear ReadyNAS Pro? -- PCTECH

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David Gibbs wrote:

At the moment 1.5tb would be more than enough for me ... the critical thing I'm looking for is a reasonable NAS device with RAID support. Right now my Linux machines don't have any DASD protection other than daily backup to a USB drive with an occasional copy to tape.

As soon as you get into video, you'll blow through a terabyte. If you have any plans on going that direction, you might consider what my brother is doing: he's building a video processing box from the ground up. The reason is that video processing is ridiculously disk intensive, so local fast drives are a must. And of course, it will be RAID capable (you may recall some posts I made earlier this month about trying to recover a dead drive - that's what prompted this project for him).

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.

Joe

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