Re: [gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 30 Jan 2009, at 18:33, Harry Putnam wrote:

> Norman Rieß <norman@smash-net.org> writes:
>
>> The system only runs nfs, samba and a cups server. I do not use some
>> fancy guis or anything like that. So settings have to be made in the
>> config files manualy, except the cupsd which brings a web gui. Maybe
>> that is something some people would miss. But i do not think a gentoo
>> user would care.
>
> Have you timed any thing like write speeds across the network to this
> box?
>
> Is it connected into 10/100 or 1000 (gigabit) setup?


I meant to say in my last message that IIRC you're never going to  
actually achieve "gigabit" speeds. If your motherboard lacks an  
onboard gigabit card then you're limited by the PCI bus, and I don't  
know that most drives can even write as fast as gigabit.

AFAICT one tends to use gigabit at present because it's "faster than  
100 Mbit/s" - one would probably be happy with 400 Mbit/s or so, but  
if you've never used NAS or network storage before then in general old  
100 Mbit/s ethernet is plenty fast enough for most people. Copying  
700mb across old 100 Mbit/s ethernet only takes 2 minutes (I should  
add this is from a slow old PIII 700mhz "NAS" to my dual-proc G5 Mac  
with 3gig RAM & SATA; copying the same file to the same disk on the G5  
was less than 50% faster).

Stroller.