There are some NAS appliances out there like the Buffalo TeraStation or the Infrant<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Bennett</b> <<a href="mailto:davidbennett1979@gmail.com">
davidbennett1979@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Please allow me to apologize for the mangling I am about to do to the
<br>following terminology. I am still feeling my way around Linux and know<br>what I want to do, just am not sure how to go about doing it (or if it<br>is possible.)<br><br>I have been getting some help with some software RAID problems I have
<br>been having, and after reading many of the responses I have been<br>inspired to rework my system.<br><br>Here is what I would like to do:<br><br>I would like to develop a storage system that can:<br><br>1) have enough bandwidth/speed (whatever) to be used as the /video
<br>partition on a mythtv system with 3 tuners.<br>2) have security (in the raid / storage sense)<br>3) Be accessible by my home network (windows / mac / linux)<br><br>Obviously #1 is most important. This needs to be able to be my /video
<br>partition for a fairly intensive 3 tuner system (ie three concurrent<br>recordings and maybe viewing on a frontend.) (4 streams)<br><br>Is this possible to do with NAS (I am guessing that NAS is referring<br>to the device, and NFS is how they link together?)
<br><br>I would like to have my mythtv/music/videos on a storage system that<br>is accessible to my network and can be put in a RAID array. I am not<br>sure what to do. Should I be looking at throwing a whole bunch of my<br>
drives in my backend and nfs'ing (samba? or is that different) to my<br>windows/mac?<br><br>Is there a more elegant solution to have just the storage somewhere<br>and hook it up via a network? (can 10/100 handle this or do I need to
<br>switch to giga-something networking?) (currently my mac watches mythtv<br>over my wireless .g network and it works great!)<br><br>Is another solution to have this storage system connected to the<br>backend and have the other computers on the network access it by
<br>network? (ie. the heavy loads will be directly through a sata or scsi<br>connection, whereas the light loads will remain on the network)<br><br>Does any of this make sense?<br>Any advice, direction, tutorials, RTFM (with a link to where the FM
<br>is!) would be fantastic.<br><br>thank you kindly,<br>david<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-J