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