**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Wed Sep 03 02:59:57 2008 Sep 03 04:07:09 Is the DP-P2 just a DP-P1 with a built-in LiDiC ? Sep 03 07:13:50 Pretty much. Sep 03 07:15:12 It also has a 16MB flash part (instead of 8MB), but due to some limitations, only 10MB (I think) is accessible. Sep 03 07:16:14 I seriously haven't turned on the Beyonwiz in well over 3 months. Sep 03 07:16:29 I guess a DP-P2 may be a slightly more interesting hardware platform for hacking, but I see the DP-P1 as the main Beyonwiz product. Sep 03 07:17:05 Funny, I haven't turned on a Topfield for well over 9 months now. Sep 03 07:17:49 I put a 500GB disk in the Toppy, and got perltgd working well, and now don't touch either topfield or beyonwiz Sep 03 07:19:19 In fact, I haven't turned on any of my slugs or Asus routers for a couple of months now. I have offloaded everything to a pair of PCs (P2 @ 300MHz and P3 @ 600MHz) when I got a 16 port gigabit switch and have been pretty happy. Sep 03 07:22:20 Can't use the slug/asus as samba servers with clients that use recent Linux kernels. Only CIFS (not SMB) is now supported with new kernels, but embedded box distros don't seem to have a decent CIFS server that's compatible. Sep 03 07:23:27 After almost a week of stuffing around with various slug firmware versions, I decided to just rebuild the old P3 box and I was up and running in a few hours. Sep 03 07:23:40 fair enough Sep 03 07:23:54 I have a qnap ts409 as my main NAS box now. Sep 03 07:24:07 the two slugs just do ftpd-topfield and bluetooth for treo650 Sep 03 07:25:18 I want to turn one of the slugs into a networked MP3 player. Just need to find a good USB to S/PDIF dongle so that I can hook it up straight to the AVR. Sep 03 07:25:59 Actually, when I say MP3, it's more like FLAC and a few other audio formats. Sep 03 07:27:23 How fast is the ts409 in terms of large file read/write over samba? Sep 03 07:27:57 Will it sustain three or more clients at 10 MB/s? Sep 03 07:30:57 smallnetworkbuilder.com gave it good ratings. Sep 03 07:31:06 I haven't really put it through it's paces. Sep 03 07:31:16 it's got a gigabit interface and the fast orion processor Sep 03 07:32:04 http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/component/option,com_nas/Itemid,190 Sep 03 07:33:01 http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30324/75/ is the review Sep 03 07:34:19 they say 22.4MB/sec raid5 read on large files Sep 03 07:34:20 Thanks - I will have a read. Sep 03 07:34:53 I also have a Synology DS408 freebie too Sep 03 07:35:34 http://www.synology.com/enu/products/DS408/index.php Sep 03 07:35:50 Is there much difference between them in terms of hackability? Sep 03 07:37:19 both have ssh out of the box Sep 03 07:37:35 qnap and synology are fighting for the title of most hacker friendly Sep 03 07:37:45 (that's why I've got freebies of both, for optware support) Sep 03 07:38:01 ds408 is a powerquicc3 device Sep 03 07:38:10 ts409 is an orion5x Sep 03 07:40:25 Seems there's a TS-509 pro now. **** ENDING LOGGING AT Thu Sep 04 02:59:57 2008