Have you guys looked at nexentastor? They have a 2TB developer edition and support a host of protocols with pretty decent speeds. They use a solaris kernel, so you'd need hardware that supports that. Russ Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Robin Hill <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 08:51:07 To: <linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: NAS Remote Side of a Mirror On Wed Oct 07, 2009 at 04:49:09PM -0700, adfas asd wrote: > OK, say I wanted to build this remote NAS box myself, rather than > spending $750 for a Qnap. > (http://qnap.com/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=110) I find a good case, > power supply, micro mobo, and cage, and install Linux and NX (remote > desktop) on it. > > I need to share those drives over GbE with minimal software > intervention. I'm not about to use bloatware like NFS or Samba. And > sshfs or an SSH tunnel could not keep up the speeds I'd need. How do > you suppose Qnap shares those drives? And provides all those other > services? > > So looking at Qnap's update, it comes down as a disk img file, which I > can not mount in loopback. Probably encrypted, and knowing them in > AES256. > > Anyone built a remote NAS box? How to share those drives with minimal > software intervention? > The lowest level approach would probably be to export it as iSCSI - I don't know what overhead the software initiator has for that (or what a hardware initiator would cost) though. Cheers, Robin -- ___ ( ' } | Robin Hill <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | / / ) | Little Jim says .... | // !! | "He fallen in de water !!" | ÿôèº{.nÇ+?·?®??+%?Ëÿ±éݶ¥?wÿº{.nÇ+?·¥?{±þ¶¢wø§¶?¡Ü¨}©?²Æ zÚ&j:+v?¨þø ¯ù ®w¥þ?à2?Þ?¨èÚ&¢)ß¡«a¶Úÿÿûàz¿äz¹Þ?ú+?ù???Ý¢jÿ?wèþf
