[Soekris] net4801 as a NAS?

[Denis Fortin]

Brooks Davis wrote recently:
> > 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.

You're right...  actually, looking into it a bit more, I find that the 
Linksys NSLU2 is (also) running at 133 or 266 MHz.

So I guess the net4801 can be used as a comparable device.

Oh well...  a project for one of those late summer weekends...

Thanks for your input,

Denis

PS. Still, I'd prefer a net5501 (actually, a successor to the 4801 with USB2 
and GigEthernet would be best :-)