PII and USB... if you were using onboard USB there is a good chance
that it was USB 1.1 which was abysmal.

On 4/25/07, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote:
> 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
>


-- 
Donovan Niesen