Mnyb;537038 Wrote: > Ok, but I think there is a good reason for that. > > You realize that a network disk is much slower than an USB drive. > Then home user use NAS's boxes that are even slower than that, they > barely reach 10mB. Yes the NAS can have 100/1000 Network adapter, but > the speed reached when handling files is limited by CPU so these tiny > NAS boxes are not close to that spec at all, but gigabit ethernet looks > cool in the spec sheet. > > That leads to this: > Scanning against a network drive is very slow even for a fast server. > > But Touch is not exactly Quad Core 4mHz machine ;) so it's a slow > server. > > Slow+Slow+Slow is what ? really slooow. > > Logitech can not sell that kind of user experience, it would be > horrible. > > A significant amount of customers would not understand ? it would be > "that stupid logitech box's" fault.
My "weak" Buffalo TSII NAS seem to do 24MBytes/second (http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/index.php?option=com_nas&Itemid=190) I have no trouble using it to play multiple streams as well as serving HD video. P -- pski real stereo doesn't wake neighbors (it enrages them) . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pski's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15574 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77522 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
