Ed Flecko wrote at 2010-06-23 20:25 -0500:
> I'd like your opinion.

The following is indeed my opinion and not backed by a significant amount of 
experience with the net5501.

> I'm thinking of buying a net5501, installing a SATA drive, and using
> Apache on FreeBSD for use on my home LAN. I might even install Squid,
> but maybe all this would be too much for this device?

I have been working on setting up a net5501 similarly (SATA drive and wireless 
PCI card).  Hopefully I will eventually finish the page documenting my efforts:
http://wiki.debian.org/green/Router

> For just my personal web site, do you think the performance of the
> net5501 would be acceptable? Would I have any reliability issues that
> I might need to consider?

I have not had any hardware related problems with my net5501 yet.  BIOS 
configuration for that SATA drive was a bit of a trick for me (not well 
documented, but ask questions here), and grub must be configured with fallback 
for booting from CompactFlash in case of a hard drive failure.

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