Bob La Quey wrote:
What is the advantage of using the Buffalo over just
putting together something with a generic x86 PC
to do the same thing?
Price, size and noise, generally.
Unless you have the x86 parts sitting around, it's pretty hard to match
the equivalent price. The low-end Linkstation Live is sitting near the
$200 mark.
The Linkstation is very quiet and sits next to my main wireless router.
Any x86 PC I could put together is going to be louder. Presumably,
this also means lower power, but I haven't proven that.
Size-wise, it's going to be *very* hard to beat it. The box is about
1/2 the size of even a Via EPIA case. And, unsually, it *doesn't* use a
wall wart; the power supply is integrated into the case (yay!).
Downsides:
Fixed amount of RAM-128MB
A bit underpowered (Marvell integrated ARM9 system)
If you venture too far away from it's native config, you'll have to
install a full Linux kernel build rather than the default one.
-a
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