Should I get a NAS?
* website with 150k uniques, 3 million page views
* 3 web servers + 1 db server
* 50,000 MP3's available on demand
* the MP3 fiels are in the db box on a SCSI 5
The assumption:
* traffic will grow rapidly
The question:
Would it be best to offload the MP3 files from the db server and onto a NAS? (like a Dell PowerVault 745N)
I don't understand the specs on these NAS's. They come with beefy Pentium chips (some dual Xeons) and support up to 4 GB's of RAM. Is simply serving files over HTTP really that intensive? Am I missing something?
Last thing, if I do decide to get a NAS should I go for SCSI drives or will SATA suffice?
