wl500g file server

[Alphamf]

hehe ok thank you :P

but for arguements sake, what would the performance be if I bought a Wl-500w since its under 100 euros atm. Any idea? in MB/s.

I saw the dlink DIR-825 come in at around 4 MB/s with sharepoint which is about a factor 5-10 multiplication of what I have now... but cant find any numbers on the wl500w. Any clue ??

thank you for your time
AlphaMF

[wiz]

I don't know what the W version would do performance wise with disks. But I can imagine it won't be impressive as of throughput from and to the disk either.

cheers,

Wiz

[MMCM]

If you want a file server with good performance don't mess around with soho routers. Build a system yourself based on at least a mini-ITX board with a (dual core?) atom processor, GBit LAN and SATA onboard running your favourite linux distro.

[Alphamf]

Thanks a lot to both of you, Wiz and MMCM.

I was actually just considering that. For around 150 euros One could make a pretty descent configuration based on the Intel atom built-in mobo / cpu configuration with 1.6 gHz. Its not much, but for a file server I recon it should be suitable while keeping the energy consumption low. Dont really have a favorite linux distro since I don't have that much experience with it, but after working in terminal for a while and messing around with the wl-500g so much I guess getting an ubuntu working shouldn't be more than a weekends work

Ill definitely be looking more into it in the near future. Thank you for confirming the logic behind my idea though

AlphaMF