Recent content by talz13

I currently have an asus rt-n16, and since about 2 years ago, have only been using it as an AP. I moved the actual routing duties to an old PC running pfSense, so all I really care about is stability and throughput. Having a guest network might be nice, but we rarely have guests, so it's not a...

Ok, I just transferred a 7.56GB folder to and from my nas server from my vista desktop over 3 hop connection (vista pc -> netgear gs105 -> netgear gs108 -> netgear gs105 -> nas server) and, with a stopwatch app, timed it to roughly 133 seconds with no real slumps in the transfer (aside from the...

It appears that, when transferring data from my desktop (ubuntu 9.04 desktop) to my new nas (ubuntu 9.04 server), it hangs for a short while every so often. When this happens, the transfer rate drops to 0 for 10-20 seconds, then picks up again. The same behavior manifests with smb and rsync...

I do notice that when I'm doing samba transfers between vista / ubuntu desktop or xp / ubuntu desktop, my transfers seemed to be maxing out around 20-30MB/sec. Upon review, it looks like ubuntu server uses some different kernel scheduling / priorities from the desktop version. Should that make...

Thanks for the info. I think I'm just going to run a linux software raid for now, since I don't have the extra money for a REAL raid controller. Good to know about the gigE. I might check out more ram if need be for the small, not always running, VMs. What about using a small HD or some...

I currently have some spare parts from a new pc build last fall and just decided to pick up the rest of what I need to turn it into a nice NAS box / home server. I just want to make sure I'm not making any mistakes with my hardware config. The parts I already have: GIGABYTE GA-EG43M-S2H LGA...