egd;184710 Wrote: > No, but I have run w2k3 and Ubuntu on the box on various occasions - > enough times to know that the performance difference was not a random > anomaly. I also have a 2nd box that I've tested in the same way and > achieved the same outcome. Not that hard to do because I have in the > past had Linux and Windows SOEs for both PCs so the time requirement > was minimal. > > The difference in scan speed under Linux versus Windows is so vast it > is even audible. Under Linux you can hear the ReadyNAS drives are > processing a lot of data almost from the second you hit the rescan > button. Doing the same under Windows never puts the ReadyNAS under the > same "pressure", in fact there is barely a discernible audible > difference under Windows between the ReadyNAS being idle and performing > a rescan. If it wasn't for the blinking of the ReadyNAS HDD activity > LED you'd think it was standing idle. When I run a scan (from the Windows XP PC), the disk attached to the NSLU2 churns constantly until the scan has completed.
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