Alexander Hall wrote:
> Anyway, you don't happen to know any retailers that ship world-wide (or

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> at least Sweden-wide), with decent shipping costs?

They were easy to find in Europe quite recently. Have you seen:
http://www.plextor-europe.com/wheretobuy/all/dealers.asp?choice=Dealers&...
> While at the subject, are the Plextor's really as useless for serving

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> files as sometimes stated?

Depends what you expect. Makes a terrific media store for me with the one

caveat that it can't sustain writes to NFS fast enough for DVB recording.

Playback is fine. Audio (at high bit rates) presents no problems at all.
Typically, I see roughly similar to:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/nfs/sh/tv/testfile bs=1M count=100

100+0 records in

100+0 records out

104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 169.636 seconds, 618 kB/s
$ dd if=/nfs/sh/tv/testfile of=/dev/null bs=1M

100+0 records in

100+0 records out

104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 41.8412 seconds, 2.5 MB/s
> The two drives I'm aiming to buy are supposed to form a geographically

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> separated, rsync'd, storage pair. Mainly for documents, i.e. no

> streaming video or so. Samba and nfs comes to mind, but really not much

> more. I'd estimate at most two simultaneous users but probably less. :-)

NFS and rsync are fine but there's no samba, yet.
> Is the bottleneck a slow processor, the hard drive, lousy I/O or

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> something else?

Don't know, don't care. :-)