> With a Gigabit network, the network speed isn't the bottleneck. The CPU > processing speed of a NAS device is. I'll bet any decent Linux server > will beat any NAS device on speed.
Jim forgot to mention that NAS doesn't mean low power neither. You can buy NAS devices running dual core dual xeons, serving terabytes of storage. Your decent Linux machine must be pretty high end to beat this. Unless you call that NAS a decent Linux box :-). -- Michael ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
