After several days of off and on effort I finally have NASLite working on my proposed NAS PC: 400MHz Pentium II Celeron w/ 132M RAM, 10/100 Enet card and UDMA 33 ports.
Transferring a single 540M file from XP to NASLite took 3:15 and transferring the same file back took 4:00 minutes.
Booting the same NAS PC into FreeNAS, transferring that file XP to NAS took 1:30 and NAS to XP took 2:00 minutes.
In this scenario FreeNAS is about twice as fast as NASLite.
I realize that NASLite is limited by the IDE drivers available on the floppy and, so, NASLite+ should be faster. Can someone estimate what kind of speeds I might get using NASLite+? Would NASLite2 be any faster?
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