You know, depending on the non-profit, I would be sorely tempted to spend $500 out of my own pocket just to purchase a stable machine that could serve the purpose. Hundreds of GB of diskspace are cheap, and even if that's not big enough (at 1+GB/day one can still fill a "big" 200GB in only 6 months, so you may have a bigger "huge" disk than that), you can still have that brand new, stable, non-crappy disk for temporary writes.

That said, if the two machines are stable enough themselves, NFS seems perfect to me. NFS is generally stable enough for most purposes.

In reply to Re: recording a stream of data remotely, and reliably by Tanktalus
in thread recording a stream of data remotely, and reliably by qbxk

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