From: Jill Rowling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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>http://www.maxtor.com/products/MaxAttach/MaxAttachExplorer.htm
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>Has anyone actually used one of these things? They don't say
>what's inside
>it (apart from it's a pentium with lots of storage) but I figured it's
>either running Linux or FreeBSD.
>They don't say what its continuous throughput is either.
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2431737,00.html
It runs a modified xBSD system called MaxOS (as could have been guessed
because there's no source code to be seen). Looks like it's running NFS and
Samba with not a lot else. Probably xBSD native on the actual disk.
The P/233 should be more than enough to keep the ATA/33 drives and 10/100
ethernet saturated. 32M of RAM probably means not a lot spare for caching
so your bottleneck is likely to be in the drives and/or ethernet (depending
on congestion). I wouldn't give it any more performance than a similarly
configured Linux box with a pair of large drives in it.
John Wiltshire
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