SuperQ;222764 Wrote: > Don't just look at the Mhz when looking at the speed of the device. Oh absolutely. But a 1.5GHz x86 processor compaired to a 280MHz embeded RISC processor is a no brainer really as far as raw processing performance is concerned. This doesn't make the N5200 a better NAS device, but it does make it a better NAS device for hosting MySQL and SlimServer :)
When the ReadyNAS was first designed i don't think you would have been able to build an x86 system with compaible performance for the same money, but now you can, and it blows the RISC based system out of the water in performace terms. SuperQ;222764 Wrote: > The Thecus does look good, but I don't see slimdevices support listed > anywhere on their normal website. Only vague listings about it in the > forums Is this really a problem? We have seen two NAS systems that originally had vendor support for SlimServer gradually drop support for it (first Progressive AV with the Qnap units and not Infrant/Netgear by the looks of things). At least with Thecus, the ability to add *any* software to the unit has been made available, so at any point someone else can come along and support it. SuperQ;222765 Wrote: > And they suck much more than the similar vendors.. take EMC, they run > windows, and their systems are terrible compared to NetApp which runs > BSD. Thats an argument for another tread :) anyway i have no experience of them so i'd be taking your word for it, i was just stating the facts :) -- funkstar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37887 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
