----- "Drew" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Steven S. Critchfield > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Let me throw this out there. What kind of networking gear do you > > have available? > > > > Most firewire is going to be 400mbit. Better than 100mbit ethernet > > but less than 1gb ethernet. > > > > You can put some drives in a barebones machine and use vblade or > > similar to export full on drives as AoE devices. > > > > Since you mention iMac, Do you have gb ethernet? > > > > > Step by step here - I have gigE available. I used to use an old Athlon > 1800 > system that my brother was throwing out to run FreeNAS Unfortunately, > whether it was a shortcoming in FreeNAS, a chipset problem, or > something > else hindering things, I get better throughput on the current > external > enclosure when it works - and the current enclosure is USB. Plus a > dedicated
I'm assuming since you said it was an Athlon 1800, it was likely a misconfiguration. Specifically PATA chipsets used to be always run at the lowest common denominator settings until you tuned with hdparm. So, you might well do well with going the dedicated box again. -- Steven Critchfield [email protected]
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