I have been using the Linksys nslu2 device without any modifications. I would not suggest it to be used as a high access read-write device. The speed of the device is very slow if you don't do any of the mods that can be found on the web. But even with them, I really don't think I would use it as a high access read-write device. I mainly us it as off-line storage, when I want to work with the data on the drives attached to it, I transfer them over to my local storage then do what I need. Be advised that if you get one of these units when you connect your drive to it , depending of the firmware version, it will re-format the drive to a linux exp3 device. You won't be able to connect the USB drive to your Windows box and access it again. As off-line storage I like it beats tape drives, but as a device that I could run a database against or any high access application, not so much. Don S. Quoting Benjamin Gramlich <benjamin.gramlich at gmail.com>: > > But that says the USB 2.0's 480 mb/s is no better than 100mb/s of the > > net, and that is much slower than direct access to a drive. The extra > > USB speed provides a net speed buffer in that case. Each of those cases > > is much slower than a direct access to a fast drive, and that was the > > original point. > > I, too, have been looking at setting up and NAS because I've heard that > external HDDs have a high failure rate. Wouldn't the tradeoff in speed > be worth it for reliability of an NAS? In other words, is it better to > have 100mb/s and a reliable RAID setup than to have 480mb/s and an > external drive that may overheat in its enclosure and die? > > Benjamin > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >