I am looking to build a NASLite-2 system off of and older Workstation I have and could use a little advice. I am essentially looking for a machine that can do sequential Read/Writes in the 60MB/sec+ range which is what I get now across my Gigabit Lan when transferrring data between 2 workstations. The bottleneck appears to be the Lan as Local transfers are in the 100MB/s range. As a side note, I tried the Intel Entry Storage System NAS and sequential reads were dismal at 15MB/s.
My Existing Hardware for this build:
Dual AMD Athlon MP 1800s
1 Gig Ram
4x 7200rpm 400GB WD RE2 enterprise drives
EDIT: Forgot to mention I will probably go with RAID10 as I need to sqeeze as much performance as possible out of a redundant (non-Raid0) system.
Will add:
LSI LOGIC MEGARAID SATA 150-6 PCI SATA Controller Card -
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6816118011
and a compatable Gigabit Lan card.
I'm looking for some performance estimates based on people's experiences with similar hardware and any red flags anyone sees with anything listed. The reason I am going this route is I need a system that can serve files to more than 10 simultaneous users and don;t want to deal with Windows Server licenses just to distribute data to 15+ stand-alone workstations. Is the NAS the right option? Thanks for any help!