I'm currently storing my FLAC's on a 160GB drive connected to an NSLU2. SlimServer is running on a fairly slow W2K box (Athlon 1700, or something like that) elsewhere on the network.
The FLAC drive is organized by ARTIST/ALBUM TITLE/TRACK(s), and right now there are about 400 folders (containing about 4000 tracks) at the root of the drive. When I browse the mapped drive from my XP box, it's quite unresponsive. Creating a new folder takes 10 or 15 seconds. However, when I browse the mapped drive from the W2K box, it's very responsive. Really not a whole lot different than browsing the drive in the W2K PC itself. So I'm not sure you can blame all slowdowns on the NSLU2 itself. It would be interesting to hear if other folks complaining about slow NSLU2 performance are also running XP. Maybe XP's CIFS implementation sucks. The nice thing about the NSLU2 is that it is essentially maintenance free. And the EXT3 file system, while a pain if you need to move the drive elsewhere, is very robust. As far as playing is concerned, I've not had a bit of trouble playing FLACs over the wired network from the drive connected to the NSLU2. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19781 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
