NASLite Network Attached Storage

ok lost track of this post and couldnt find anywhere....

will a faster cpu or dual cpus make a differnce in speed

running dual p2 450s and have another board with dual p3 700s
that i was going to use....
both with 512 meg ram

yep faster cpu allways better & dual cpu divide the load better then single cpu. im using 3.0ghz p4 for my office allmost 30 people log in and share files & for home im using p3 800mhz overclocked @1.2ghz

Naslite uses a single cpu only, so its a waste to have a second chip on the mobo. Single cpu should be enough tho since naslite is pretty fast anyway. You should benchmark the transfers and go from there. You may have to use your other board and run a single 700 if youre not happy with the speed.

As Dimension pointed out, NASLite doesn't support dual CPUs. That there would take a fair bit of tunning to get to really fly and for a NAS box like these are it would be totaly wasted.

There has been no difference between my old celeron 400 and my Athlon 800 overall performance wise, the hard drives are the bottleneck. Anything in that range should be just fine. I am currently running on a Gigabit network and hit the drives fairly hard now and then and the thing just runs. I would advise that you run say in the area of 256MB to 512MB of RAM. This will make a fairly big differance when there is alot of disk activity and cache is being used.

Mike