NASLite Network Attached Storage

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 NASLite2?

The floppy versions definately have poor performance, obviously because we're limited on the amount space on the floppy, but no one else has done anything remotely similar.

NASLite-2 is nearly three times faster than FreeNAS at any level, and of course more mature,stable. Read the following thread for speed comparisions :

http://www.serverelements.com/phpBB2/vi ... b461159a29

Well finally you are up and running well done!

You will have a couple of bottlenecks on your current machine "10/100 Enet card and UDMA 33 ports" the udma running at 33 is going to slow things down, if you purchase naslite+ you can't add a faster pci ata or sata card, But with v2 you can. and a ton more HD's should you need them and a stack more options.