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Consoldated Network Storage?

Posted by Cliff on from the disparate-hard-drives-as-one-volume dept.

bigstupid asks: "Is there anyway to better utilize storage space on your network? I have a home network with about nine permanently attached PCs. A few of these are older PII300 with smaller hard drives (3-10GB). What I want to do is consolidate as much of the network storage as possible. That is: Instead of 2.4GB here, 4.6GB there, 5GB hither, 5BG tither, and 6 GB yon, I would like this storage space to appear to any computer I designate a 'client' to see and use this storage space as one large (in the case above 23GB) volume. I know I can do this within a machine with logical volumes or RAID, but is there a piece of software - client or server side - that will do this on Linux or Windows?"

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  1. Easy... by *xpenguin* · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just go buy yourself a 23 gigbayte harddrive.

    1. Re:Easy... by kernelistic · · Score: 2, Funny

      Then he'll have to opt for one of those shiny new 120GB drives. :-)

  2. Cartman as Network Storage Engineer by stu72 · · Score: 2, Funny
    That is: Instead of 2.4GB here, 4.6GB there, 5GB hither, 5BG tither, and 6 GB yon, I would like this storage space to appear to any computer I designate a 'client' to see and use this storage space as one large (in the case above 23GB) volume.

    You see, instead of 2.4 GB hyah, 4.6 GB nyah, 5 GB over hyah, and 6 GB over nyah...

  3. How apropos by tswinzig · · Score: 3, Funny

    They consolidated the word consolidated.

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    "And like that ... he's gone."