Re: [cobalt-users] NAS as additional/secondary storage?

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Greg Hewitt-Long" <cobaltusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Has anyone ever linked up a NAS or used NFS across a local
> network (preferably using the 2nd NIC) to provide storage to a RAQ?

I've done it via NFS via our internal network.

> possibly a couple of RAQs with 2 x 60Gb or 80Gb drives

If you're simply looking for storage space accessible via the network,
unless you have the RaQs already and have no other use for them, you're as
well off (or better) using something Pentium class machines with low RAM and
large drives running something like Red Hat 7.3 and minimal services.  It
would certainly be a lot less expensive, probably as effective and more
secure everything else being equal.  But then again, I'm a big fan of old
ugly hardware.  ;-)

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