marklings;386685 Wrote: > > It strucks that for about the same money (say 300 to 400 Euros) you can > buy a dedicated low power silent or quasi silent PC. TranquilPC and many > others. Wouldn't that be a far superior choiche from any stand point ? > > - Same low power > - Same low noise > - Same money (ballpark) > > BUT > > - Way more processing powerful > - Way more applications > - Way more open > > It would seem to me an automatic choice; one that would out all NASes > out of the market. I think I am missing something here. Could anyone > advise ? > If you want a networked file storage, buy a NAS. If you want a low power server to run server applications, buy a low power PC.
NAS boxes are optimized for storage and that's their primary functionality even though it's possible to other server applications on some of them. A NAS can be a lot better if you really are looking for networked storage, especially if you like things like raid support, stability and possibility to have several hard drives. Finally, don't make the mistake and presume that a NAS is silent, my QNAP 409 NAS sounds more than my HTPC in the living room. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) 'My download page' (http://erland.isaksson.info/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58489 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
