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Alternatives to a file server


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By chrisspring - Wednesday, December 3, 2008 9:36:44 AM

Hi there

Just bouncing around an idea about using network share(s) rather than a dedicated file server for myriad data. Our setup would be for a 3 PC system. Schedule, Audiowall and Voice custom, with the audiowall PC being the Primary for audio data and the Voice Custom PC being the secondary audio server.

If I use some Windows folder sync'ing software do I just need to sync the audio folders and the {database}.MDB file.?

many thanks

Chris spring

Epsom HR

By Bruce - Sunday, December 21, 2008 12:56:19 PM

We got ours from www.lambda-tek.com - £234+VAT. There were several other places selling it for around the same price.



It's now been in operation for about a month, and seems fine.



One "gotcha" - make sure that the "trashbox" facility is turned off - otherwise it keeps copies of all deleted files. Including everytime you modify a track with smoothedit w00t



So we found that our terabyte of storage was 60% used after a fortnight, but the "real content" in there was only about 9%. In the "trashbox" folder were about a dozen copies of each of a number of 1-hour WAV files....