Question About Software

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I figured some of you more IT savvy folks might be able to help me out so here goes...

I will be saving tons (TBs) of different files, PDF, Video, Audio, MS Office docs, etc to a SAN.

My question is, what kind of software do I need to allow me to search the SAN later for a specific document/file? Is there software that will allow me to add tags to files for easier searching later? I'm hoping there is already some cheap COTS software available so I don't have to build a DB and custom front end.

Anyone have experience with anything like this?

Thanks in advance for your time.

[HOF44]

Any reason you're going SAN instead of NAS?

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Any reason you're going SAN instead of NAS?

Sorry, it is NAS, about 6 TB. I've been saying SAN for so many years it's hard to break the habbit.

[HOF44]

These are free.

FreeNAS
Openfiler
NASLite

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These are free.

FreeNAS
Openfiler
NASLite

Thanks! I'll check them out. Though at first glance they look to be just turn the NAS into a file server. I'm looking for something more along the lines of content management, like Sharepoint without all the MS crap. ;-)

[G-Prime]

I don't much care for NASlite.. FreeNAS is ok though

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Anyone else have any ideas?