Michael Herger wrote: >> With a Gigabit network, the network speed isn't the bottleneck. The CPU >> processing speed of a NAS device is. I'll bet any decent Linux server >> will beat any NAS device on speed. >> > > Jim forgot to mention that NAS doesn't mean low power neither. You can buy > NAS devices running dual core dual xeons, serving terabytes of storage. > Your decent Linux machine must be pretty high end to beat this. Unless you > call that NAS a decent Linux box :-). >
That's true of course. But usually consumer grade NAS boxes are built for low energy comsumption and have just enough power to serve files decently. Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
