mik63;179711 Wrote: > I have an HP XW4300 (but an 8000 or 8200 would be event better). > I have "added" the RAID5 functionality to WindowsXP (just a few lines > to change in a certain file), bought 4 SATA drives, and I am in > business. I also have 1 extra network card, so I have 2 network > connections. > You can find these kind of systems for much less then the dedicated NAS > and they are much more flexible. > In addition you can rip directly on the NAS of course.
Yet recently I was well convinced to go with NAS, just because I never paid attention how cheap desktops these days are. I seems one can get more of everything (memory, power, etc) for money by getting with those Dell or HP workstations, especially if you catch it on sale... On the other hand: - software RAID is terribly slow (like 3 times slower) then the one with hardware controller - it's not clear if you can achieve network data transfer rate as of aforementioned Thecus with that configuration running XP - workstation required much more maintenance, NAS requires nothing, plug it in and you're set to go - having XP may be as advantage just as disadvantage over simple specialized Linux based NAS OS Conclusion: if you need it only for SlimServer then all above doesn't matter, but it's to be used as a file server as well then cheap workstation may have severe performance problems comparing to good NAS. -- 325xi simaudio nova cdp >> simaudio moon i-5 >> revel performa m20 via acoustic zen matrix reference ii and acoustic zen satori -planned additions:... >> deq2496 >> lavry da-10 >>...- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 325xi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5661 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25727 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
