> From: JRS
> Date: 5/18/2007 10:44:02 AM
> To: The Hardware List
> Subject: Re: [H] ready made NAS box.
>
> My whole computer room is twice as quiet right now with the Snap turned
> off..
>
> Playing with the new D_Link DNS-323 I just got, 320 gigs of RAID 1 storage.
> RAID 1 is mirrored, so a whole drive is wasted, but I got two 3-year
> warranty 320 gig WD SATA drives for only 79 bucks each. Sorta makes it
> worth it.
>
> Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200AAKS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA
> 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM 79.00
>
> My much older Snap Server used to max out at 29-30 Mbps data transfer rate,
> pretty close to the theoretical ATA IDE speed of 33 Mbps transfer rate.
ATA100 or 133 = 100MB/s or 133MB/s.
> This new one is doing 90 Mbps right now, almost has the whole Ethernet 100
> Mbps switch and pipe full. And it's been sustained, it's been running at
> 89-90 Mbps now for 20-30 minutes according to Task Manager.
That is friggin SLOW. I get 400Mbps ( ~40MB/s ) off my gig-e attached file
server and I think it's slow, I don't even know how I'd deal with something
slower than USB2.
> Plus this one only cost like 380 bucks, whereas the Snap was 2500 when new.
Good price though.
--
Bryan G. Seitz
