[Soekris] net4801 as a NAS?

[Eric Hodel]

On Aug 24, 2006, at 1:36 PM, Denis Fortin wrote:
> 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.

I haven't put a raw DVD on my 4801, but I have ripped DVDs and  
streamed about 1kb/s video over NFS and 802.11g.

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