[Soekris] net4801 as a NAS?

[Brooks Davis]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 10:08:54PM +0200, Denis Fortin wrote:
> Good evening all,
> 
> I think I know the answer to this, but I'd just like to verify what the list 
> thinks...
> 
> I would like to use FreeNAS (http://www.freenas.org) to build a NSLU2-like 
> device.  Put the O/S on a flash card, throw in a PCI card with a couple of 
> USB2.0 ports and use external disks for storage.
> 
> However, a net4801 with a USB2.0 card and a couple of external disks would 
> probably not make a very good NAS device, right?  Given that the net4801 
> doesn't have enough CPU oompf to keep up with the 100 Mbps ethernet, the 
> whole thing would therefore just crawl, I assume.

That would depend on your definition of crawl.  It wouldn't be as fast
as the raw disk, but for a lot of applications it should be plenty fast.
You could certainly store music on it.  Even DVD video should be within
the realm of the feasible if you don't have too many clients.

-- Brooks
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