NASLite Network Attached Storage

Hey all!

I'm a newbie here and I haven't used NASLite yet because I need to get some equipment (like a GigabitE card)... To those of you who run it on a regular basis, I have a few questions for you...

I deal with video. Lots of video. On a laptop. Currently I'm running a series of disks via firewire and edit with Final Cut Pro. I find the performance decent, except when dealing with rendering/editing/transitions at the same time (saturated bandwidth). I was wondering how NASLite would handle such work...

- I'm not expecting to beat the throughput of firewire (400) over gigabit ethernet, but is the network latency going to make all of this impossible? I wouldn't do this to _reduce_ my actual performance...

- Should I RAID-0 the drives in the NAS? Would I gain any performance versus a JBOD configuration? And is the potential improved performance worth the loss of reliability should I lose a disk?

- What kind of hardware would I be looking at, as a minimum, to run this? I think that old pentium 75 may be a lost cause, but perhaps a dual-200MHz Pentium Pro? or a celeron 400?

- Should I invest in a SATA card and disks? will I run into bandwidth concerns with old hardware like that?

Thanks a bunch for your help!
I'm looking forward to trying this

Take care

-tych0

Below is my config.
Note: Processor is not that important(Naslite is not really utilizing it)
Ram- Naslite maxes out at 768MB RAM any more is a waste.

NasLite 2.04 CDD

Dell Dimension 4550
768MB RAM 400FSB
2.53 Ghz P4 processor
LSI Logic MegaRaid SATA 150-6
4xSeagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB HDDs in Raid 5
100Mbit NIC onboard Mobo

Achieving about 9.5 MB/sec on the transfers (guys on Gbit networks are seing upward of 23MB/sec)
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