On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 04:30:36PM -0500, Andrew Zbikowski wrote: > > system using Unslung with the NSLU2. > > Now that's a tempting little project. I could replace an old computer > that's dedicated to running BackupPC > (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) with one of those, and the whole > mess could fit into some sort of small ventilated and locked enclosure > secured to the floor or the wall... I hope you realize the performance will be somewhere around a couple of megabytes per second for write and double that for read. My first attempt at a NAS was with a PII/450 MHz and a USB2.0 external harddrive. The performance was abysmal, and I expect the NSLU2 to be even slower, based on the CPU, RAM and NIC. Cheers, florin -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070425/a3726093/attachment.pgp