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ddp Wrote: > Well I tried out a 2TB ReadyNAS NV for a couple of weeks and ended up > returning it because it was too slow to use as a file server under OS > X. > I have to wade in with a contrasting opinion. I've had my 2TB (populated with the nearline-series Seagates) ReadyNAS NV for... is it a couple of months, now? It serves my needs nicely. I run (and had been running) SlimServer on a little Linux box, but manage my music with iTunes on my G5 tower. I'd been rsyncing the music tree from the Mac to the Linux box, now I just mount the same music share from the NV both places. I don't find myself annoyed by the NV's performance. Granted, as I was setting it up, I tried various protocols, and settled on CIFS, which seemed to perform best. I'd expected to use NFS, since both machines of interest are basically Unix-based, but the notionally foreign-to-both CIFS ended up working nicely. The ReadyNAS's configuration interface isn't a model of either clarity or speed, but once you figure out where the things you need to tweak live, you can do what you need to do just fine; and the box's performance as a fileserver is far better than its performance serving up its own configuration pages. Go figure. The only big configuration hassle for me was getting the charsets and codepages all specified consistently across all the relevant boxes, but I expect that'd be a problem with any heterogeneous NAS setup. Once I got it all coherent, I realized a pleasing benefit: some tracks and whole albums which had been visible to iTunes but had disappeared (apparently because of accented-character issues) when I looked for them with the SlimServer, magically reappeared -- as far as I can tell, my SlimServer track list now matches what iTunes thinks it's got. So, no, the ReadyNAS doesn't perform as well as an industrial-strength fileserver from Apple, or HP, or IBM, or EMC. It also doesn't cost something in the $7,000-to-infinity range and make as much noise as an Everglades airboat. No buyer's remorse here. -- jbm0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jbm0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3949 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24534 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
