Peter;193768 Wrote: > NAS's are usually run by people who don't want to run a real 24/7 > server, for whatever reason. Perhaps we should make a poll of it but > I'm betting the majority of NAS users are not running Windows. Well, > that's to be expected, but I'm betting it will be even less. > > People by a NAS because they don't want to run a server. People who run > Linux usually don't have such qualms.
Sounds like a variant on the "bizarre definition" that JJZolx mentioned. Is a NAS not "real" server because it (typically) only runs Samba, and doesn't run Apache, sendmail, nfs, etc.? I would venture that people buy a NAS because they want to run smbd and nmbd, although that wish might be expressed as "I want everyone in the house to be able to access the music files". A NAS is a server, that runs the daemons one set of buyers wants, and is less expensive to buy and run than "real" server, especially at the consumer-grade end of the NAS market. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34325 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
