On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Fernando Lozano <ferna...@lozano.eti.br> wrote:
> But you know, everyone buys NASes today, it's getting harder to explaing a > common PC would be better. Here a server box with a RAID controller and a > hot-swappable disk bays is way more expensive than an iomega NAS in a rack > form factory. > I've found the performance of those "cheap" NAS boxes (even the cheap ones are relatively expensive) to be sub-par. Most of them max out at a few MB/second. A reasonable set of hardware in a 2U with hot-swap drives will absolutely smoke a cheap NAS and the price/performance ratio is much better. Plus, you can use ZFS/BTRFS/etc as your backing store if you'd like on your own dedicated box. -- Peace and Blessings, -Scott. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
