What problems using a NAS for sample streaming off disk as well as storage and backup.

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2011/08/05 09:19:28 (permalink)

What problems using a NAS for sample streaming off disk as well as storage and backup.

Suggestions please if I don't want all my drives in one PC box but available over a network.

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    Re:What problems using a NAS for sample streaming off disk as well as storage and backup. 2011/08/05 09:43:26 (permalink)
    Make sure you're using gigabit networking (1000base-T). Your NAS box and your switch(s) and the NIC in your computer ALL need to work at 1000Gb.
    More common 100base-T may be ok for small samples, but you'd be pushing its limits for any serious work.  Same goes for WiFi.

    Use a NAS box that has multiple drives in a Raid array to increase data speed OR multiple drives set as seperate drives (split your libraries across the drives) for higher concurrency.

    DO NOT link multiple drives as a single array (for speed) and then create several logical drives (partitions) from this. All the heads will move together so you can only read one drive at once.

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    Re:What problems using a NAS for sample streaming off disk as well as storage and backup. 2011/08/06 06:54:52 (permalink)
    Giga network goes without saying - but thanks for confirming
    The NAS I'm looking at can do iSCSI over the existing system which apparently increases disc read and write speeds quite significantly. I don't understand the process exactly but once setup is taken care of behind the scenes. Apparently you can allocate an amount of HDD space for iSCSI.
    I can also do RAID 0+1 which allows a pair of drives for spanning data to increase read speed and then mirror that pair with another for redundancy.

    It's just that the whole NAS thing is new to me. i'm just getting too many samples and a couple of drives just doesn't cut it any more. With that much data I also want some redundancy not so much for the samples as I can do that just once but for projects and other created data that changes with edits etc. Also want ot have a webserver and ftp server for external access by others.

    Don't mean to be personal karyn but your avatar looks a bit creepy

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