Well I deiced to load Ubuntu on a old 1.4Ghz Celeron M 360 laptop with a 100Mbps ethernet connection and 512MB ram. I wanted to see if it would be worth the effort to build an Atom server. I also plan to wait for new low power atom chipset to come out. I left my music collection on the NAS.
Wow the difference is amazing, even on this old slow laptop. The ReadyNAS took 1 hour 20 min to build my music library of over 5000 songs. The ubuntu laptop 6 min 40 sec!!! The ReadyNAS squeezecenter interface is almost unusable due to being so slow, the slow laptop latency is very fast. It is a total marketing gimmick that they even advertise SqueezeCenter integration on the ReadyNAS's with SPARC processors (duo, NV, NV+, 1100). Bottom line, don't run squeezecenter on a SPARC processor ReadyNAS, you need one of the faster x86 boxes. Better yet don't buy a ReadyNAS with a sparc processor at all, it is a waste of money because it is only good for file shareing and there are tons of other cheaper products that will do the same thing. -- LukeS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LukeS's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32128 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66496 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
