Does these NAS devices have any file-size limitations?

[m_lopez_h]

I'm in the market for a NAS device to host my media library which is increasing in size at a very fast rate. I've read the XBMC wiki section on NAS devices and researched the various NAS devices that are compatible with XBMC. I'm considering the following:

Buffalo Terastation
Infrant Ready NAS
Maxtor Shared Storage II
Dlink DNS-323

All my DVDs are ripped uncompressed and stored as single file ISOs on a separate drive using NTFS. There are multiple ISOs that are >4GBs in size. My question is...does anyone know if the NAS devices listed above have file size limitations? I can't seem to find the answer looking at spec sheets and reading the user manuals.

[ultrabrutal]

DLink DNS-323 has.. I have a 7 gb iso which it won't take, not sure where the limit is though
The rest I have no experience with

[pike]

I'll findout about the ReadyNAS. gimme a few days (I'm curious aswell)

[pike]

http://www.infrant.com/wiki/index.ph...ill_support.3F

What is largest file size that the ReadyNAS will support?

The ReadyNAS will support up to 1TB (terabyte) file size. Some protocols, such as HTTP will have a limitation where maximum file transfer size can be much less.

I haven't tested myself yet, but hopefully I will be able to sometime in the future

[m_lopez_h]

This is where I am confused. So the Infrant wiki notes that the NAS will support up to 1TB (terabyte) file size and the file system used is ext2/ext3. Elsewhere on the internet I see references to ext2 file size limitations of 2GB (ext3 I have not been able to confirm)

Several posts up, a user states that the Dlink DNS-323 (which uses ext2 file system) can't take a a 7GB ISO. I wonder if not all ext2/ext3 file system implementations are the same?

[bigbill]

Hi,

I've got a ReadyNAS NV and it can quite happily serve up a 7.4 GByte (largest I can find) iso file to XBMC (V2) with no problems at all. This is using SMB rather than UPnP AV.

I can't speak for any of the other devices but when I researched the available NAS devices on the market the ReadyNAS came out tops and I've been very happy it since it arrived. The only caveat is cost - it's a lot more money than, say, the Terastation but I'm inclined to say it's worth it.

Hope that helps.

[shabbs]

The file size limit on an EXT2 file system depends on the block size you create the file system with:

Block size: 1 KB
Max. file size: 16 GB

Block size: 2 KB
Max. file size: 256 GB

Block size: 4 KB
Max. file size: 2 TB

Block size: 8KB
Max. file size: 2TB

EXT3 is an extended EXT2 file system that implements journaling. It has the same file size limits as EXT2.

Cheers.