Servers and NAS

[re:FORM]

I have a Boxx 7400 that I might retire from DR services fairly soon... its only a dual dual-core 1.8Ghz opteron, so is beginning to show its age up against the rest of my systems. Can't remember if it has SCSI built-in (probably not), but its probably a good solid performer to take over file-serving duties.

Looking at the SAS option, and boy is it expensive ! Think I might get two Seagate Cheetah's to run in RAID 1.

Would a RAID on the fileserver suffer much of a bottleneck over the LAN(gigabit)?

[rmejia]

Have you seen this website:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/

I have been wondering about this one:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30721/75/

[Sascha Selent]

www.thecus.com

I own two N5200 for network-storage - I´m very happy with them...

[honzal]

NAS Lite 2
http://www.serverelements.com/naslite-2.php - very easy to administrate, Linux based, cheap and works great on "retired" machines. Just be sure it supports your RAID card !

best

Jan

[re:FORM]

One question about maximising backburner rendering performance.... is it better to "include maps" when sending to backburner? Do the nodes continually request the maps during a render for each frame if it's not ticked?

[tct70]

Excuse me butting in with what is probably a dumb question, but am I wrong in thinking you can only DR on windows nodes. Linux nodes would be useless?

Thanks