Hi
At the place I work, we generate a lot of video content that is huge in size and numbers. We have been on the lookout for a cost-effective NAS solution for a while and finally decided to take the jump by buying storage boxes from Super Micro.
In addition to the HDD storage with a lot of RAID level options, we also got two Flash drives in RAID-1 for the operating system.
We chose http://www.openfiler.com/ as our NAS operating system. This is a very mature product now with tons of features to make your NAS and its data accessible from a variety of platforms.
Active Directory Integration
One of our most important requirements was the ability to allow folder access using Windows Active Directory groups. It took a while for us to get this configured but we managed to in the end and it is working seamlessly.
FTP Server
We are also using the same OpenFiler storage box as our FTP server for the hundreds of video files we receive daily over the Internet using FTP.
SMB Access
As OpenFiler exposes all volumes as CIFS/SMB as well, our internal Windows and Apple clients can easily share and access videos and images from this NAS from around the organisation.
NIC Bonding
The storage box supports teaming of upto 6 1Gbps network interfaces for performance that exceeds our needs for this application.
Openfiler supports many other features that allow for high availability and data protection.
Check it out.
Good combination - Super Micro storage and OpenFiler.
Cheers
Iyer
At the place I work, we generate a lot of video content that is huge in size and numbers. We have been on the lookout for a cost-effective NAS solution for a while and finally decided to take the jump by buying storage boxes from Super Micro.
In addition to the HDD storage with a lot of RAID level options, we also got two Flash drives in RAID-1 for the operating system.
We chose http://www.openfiler.com/ as our NAS operating system. This is a very mature product now with tons of features to make your NAS and its data accessible from a variety of platforms.
Active Directory Integration
One of our most important requirements was the ability to allow folder access using Windows Active Directory groups. It took a while for us to get this configured but we managed to in the end and it is working seamlessly.
FTP Server
We are also using the same OpenFiler storage box as our FTP server for the hundreds of video files we receive daily over the Internet using FTP.
SMB Access
As OpenFiler exposes all volumes as CIFS/SMB as well, our internal Windows and Apple clients can easily share and access videos and images from this NAS from around the organisation.
NIC Bonding
The storage box supports teaming of upto 6 1Gbps network interfaces for performance that exceeds our needs for this application.
Openfiler supports many other features that allow for high availability and data protection.
Check it out.
Good combination - Super Micro storage and OpenFiler.
Cheers
Iyer
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