Office Productivity
The office productivity simulation is very similar to the content creation, with a total of 607 files written to and read from the drive. A total of 1.4GB of data is written to and read from the drive with a close balance between each made – the majority of write access is made up of 1kB writes.
Maybe one of these years I’ll find a NAS handy but at the moment I have absolutely no use for them, I guess a lot do though.
Build your own! Actually I am working on a DIY NAS Build Guide, currently on hold for my exams, but yes I think it might appeal to you when I finally finish it. It is about building the most cost efficient NAS possible so yes..right up your street 😉
Best of luck for your exams. I haven’t written exams in years now, I think it’s because of my age. 😉
Cheers dude 🙂 yeh….you lucky old people 😛
Be patient, you’ll eventually get there. 😉
All the points are good BUT .. there is no reliable evidence that the raised temps you quote will lead to any discernable decrease in disc life (possibly over the very long term 8-10 years).
direct playback would be nice but maybe too much of a (software/copyright) can of worms?
ryan martin .. quietness+ (but keep an eye on the HP microserver)