Linksys home NAS gateway for USB hard drives

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
cooler

You're comparing retards and ewoks, they're entirely different.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: Sifl

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
cooler

You're comparing retards and ewoks, they're entirely different.

Hahahahahaha


LMAO

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: Sifl

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
cooler

You're comparing retards and ewoks, they're entirely different.

Hahahahahaha


LMAO

I agree...only posted because no one knows about it....100Mbps over 1 CHANNEL is sick.ALl those superg and xtremeg are crap compared to these.

US RObotics has the fastest 802.11g router(stock) , so this will also be impressive.

 

[LeadMagnet]

isn't that the wan port?

WAN and UP-Link are the same type of port.

Just thinking out loud. If you should stripe the two drives together it could lessen the crippled speed that comes with USB2. Its not bad, but if you put this on the network you want read/write performance as fast as possible, because of the expectation that more than one person will use it at the same time.

The performance bottle neck is the network interface (100Mb/s) not the USB2.0 interface (480Mb/s), and stripping without any parity would atleast double your chances of a failure wiping out your data.

How do conventional NAS's work? It's a machine with a bunch of hard drives that is connected to the network right? So what makes that any different than any standard computer hooked up to the network with folders/drives shared? Are those all NAS?

This is differnt from a PC with JBOD because it is smaller, quieter, remote management, more energy efficent.

It only has two usb ports, can you plug a hub into it as well? If not you'd just as well get an ximeta netdisk for less

I have the Ximeta 160GB disk and it costs about the same as a external drive and the Linksys. The advantage of the Linksys is the management software it comes with (shares, quotas, ect..) The Ximeta can only have 1 computer R/W access it at a time, (because it is block level access) the Linksys is file level access so several PC's can all have read/write at the same time.

isn't there another router that allows you to use an external hard drive as an FTP server accessible outside of your home network?

Yes there is ,but I forgot who it is too - I belive the Linksys does that as well.

All I know is that I'm getting tired of all these clusterfvck add on boxes, I wish someone would build something that handled NAS, router, 802.11g and modem, or something.

I know what you mean - if it was costeffective I would buy a little Via Epia PC add a couple drives and be able to do everything everyone has been speaking about. (RAID / FTP / NFS / hotswap / wireless). Those tiny Via Epia only use 20watts of juice and are fanless - but expensive $250+++.

 

[LeadMagnet]

I know what you mean - if it was costeffective I would buy a little Via Epia PC add a couple drives and be able to do everything everyone has been speaking about. (RAID / FTP / NFS / hotswap / wireless). Those tiny Via Epia only use 20watts of juice and are fanless - but expensive $250+++.

Actaully I just found one of those Via Epia machines here for $127

 

[Childs]

Originally posted by: LeadMagnet

isn't that the wan port?

WAN and UP-Link are the same type of port.

Just thinking out loud. If you should stripe the two drives together it could lessen the crippled speed that comes with USB2. Its not bad, but if you put this on the network you want read/write performance as fast as possible, because of the expectation that more than one person will use it at the same time.

The performance bottle neck is the network interface (100Mb/s) not the USB2.0 interface (480Mb/s), and stripping without any parity would atleast double your chances of a failure wiping out your data.

But this essentially a cheap NAS, so a few people/machines would be accessing it at the same time. I think USB2's actual throughput is something like 35MB/s, but with a few people accessing it that speed will go down for each user accesing the disk due to the nature of USB. Fast Ethernet is probably around 10MBs, but thats for each client. I could see the USB2 being the bottleneck in my home LAN; one person with 3 machines. One has to two PVRs recording 24/7, another downloading everything ever posted on the internet, and another encoding video and making DVDs.

I'm not big on data failures. This wouldn't be an storage archive, but a massive hard drive floating around for every machine to use. If the stripe fails I'll just rebuild it. I'd rather have the ability to stripe to keep the access to the disks as fast as possible. Two USB 2 ports accessing one logical volume would be nice, thats what I would like the striping for. hahahha I wont get it, but it won't stop me from asking!