Well, I'm glad someone said it. A NAS is -not- a PC. It is a specialized, single-purpose, stripped-down device. The manufacturers do not want end users installing software on it and will put significant barriers to stop this. The devices are usually supplied with the barest minimum of resources to do the job passably - add to it and it'll quickly run out.
An argument that frequently comes up is "I don't want my computer on 24/7, it wastes power." People see the power supplies in PCs, 500W + these days, and assume the PC uses 100% of this power 24/7. This is not the case. Sure, there have been some power-hungry architectures in the past (NetBurst - i.e. Pentium 4 and the worst of all, Prescott) but processors older than that (Pentium III) or newer (Core) are much more power-efficient. With some smart thinking (i.e. don't install two high-end graphics cards in SLI, don't even use a monitor at all) I bet power consumption of a dedicated PC would rival that of a NAS. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37416 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
