> Hi, > > The language lab from the local university has contacted me. They'd like > to have a low-cost file server for storing all their language video > files. They have a mix of Windows, Mac OS X and even Linux clients, > roughly 50 machines. The files are quite big, and they calculated a > total amount of 2 To of storage. > > I'm not very proficient with hardware, meaning either I'm dealing with > remote servers in some datacenter, or otherwise I install CentOS > desktops on any hardware people throw at me. > > Since the aim is lowcost, would it be wrong to install that fileserver > on a no-name desktop PC with a 64bit processor and enough RAM, and then > simply put 2 x 2 To hard disks in it, either with a mirroring RAID (can > never remember which does what in 0, 1 and 5) or some rsync script > regularly copying over the first disk to the second? Or do you have > something more apt to suggest? > What value does the language lab associate to these files? And how is backup done? Rainer