Access speeds

[Streat]

If implementing several hard drives into a greyhole configuration will my data access speed be limited simply by the slowest drive in the system as data is split amongst all drives? Assuming of course that the limiting factor is ot my internet upload/download speed. Can i set permissions to access portions of data or password protect a series of files utilizing this system as well? Thank you!

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[sgtfoo]

You have 2 questions here...

1) drive access.... it is limited by where the actual file is stored... so if the real file you're reading is on your slowest drive, it will be read/accessed at the speed that any file server would for such a drive. If you have fast drives, and all your other gear presents no bottleneck, then it will be as fast as it can.

2) Amahi protects access to files on a per-folder/per-user basis. You can set a shared folder to be accessible to one, 2 or any users. specific file permissions set in linux with chmod parameters can override this as it would be no longer "policed" by samba permissions.