On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Les Mikesell<lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> >>>> But the one piece of of the puzzle that I don't understand, will a >>>> self-build-Linux NAS device, or even Openfiler / FreeNAS give us that >>>> kind of uptime. >>> High quality servers running an enterprise linux version can give you >>> the same uptime as dedicated hardware if you are comfortable with not >>> doing updates. For example I still have a RH 7.3 based box running that >>> has only been down a few minutes in about 7 years (had to move it) but I >>> wouldn't try that with anything exposed to the internet. I did replace >>> several drives and rebuild the raids over that time - and it is probably >>> about to die of old age soon. >>> >> >> But surely CentOS, or other free / non-enterprise linux's can do the >> same? I've seen NAS devices running Debian, so CentOS should be able >> to deliver the same performance / reliability ? > > Sure, CentOS is as good as it gets. I was just using my oldest still-running > system as an example - and it is well firewalled so I haven't been forced to > upgrade it for security reasons. You just need to stick to distributions that > emphasize stability and in most situations you'll want some scheduled downtime > to do updates that might require reboots. But even dedicated hardware will > sometimes have required updates. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ Thanx for all the input, it has helped me a lot. Now I just need to convince my partner to use a Linux based NAS :) Openfiler has also been doing quite well for me, as well as FreeNAS, so it's a tough choice - both of these run out of the box what I need, but with my own NAS device, I could run a few other things (Apache + PHP + MySQL) as well. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Hosting Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532