[Cialug] Virtual Box and NAS

[Dave Hala Jr]

I was looking for high performance file server for a reasonable amount
of money. Consensus is that a home built file server would readily out
perform most of the NAS boxes in the under $1500.00 range.

On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 17:50 -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> At 05:45 PM 8/17/2011, you wrote:
> >So... the question is, if we have a Centos 6 file server, with a 
> >1gbintel nic and a 3ware 8006-4lp sata controller with 4 or so 1.5gb 
> >7200sata drives in a raid 5 configuration, does a dual Pentium III 
> >1.4 ghzmachine with 2gb of ram have enough horsepower for decent performance?
> 
> Performance at what? X windows, probably not, . . file/print, certainly.
> 
>          Lee 
> 
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