3TB on a router? LOL!!!That wouldn't be a router with a 3TB drive on it.That would be a 3TB drive with a router attached.From newegg: Seagate 3TB Freeagent external drive: $180Asus RT-N16: $75But, you, it would work.If I was seriously thinking about doing that, I'd rather get a NAS (Seagate 3TB GoFlex is $219). Plug it into the router and let the router, um, do the routing, and then you can access the storage at full ethernet speed of 1000MB.Or QNAP NAS ($150) + your own drive. Hitachi 3TB $140, Samsung 2TB $80. Plus, the QNAP is Linux, so maybe you could port Tomato to it. Yeah, 6MB sec is slow using AFP/Netatalk 2.1.5 I get 7.5MB/sec write and 9MB/sec read but still, not lightning fast.In terms of NAS devices, if you are Linux-literate, you might want to consider buying an NAS that can be 'opened' or hacked to run Debian.I've got various Buffalo LinkStation devices that run Lenny or Squeeze. From my experiences, it is so much more useful to have a really workable Linux distro on them - you can install nearly anything you want to from.deb packages, and if it isn't available as a package, you can download the source and (slowly) build it natively.
My main box is a LinkStation Pro running Lenny, with a 2TB sata drive, and an attached 2TB USB drive that it rsyncs to once a week. Network speed on these is around 15MB-20MB/sec write.Some of the newer NAS boxes that have snappier ARM9 processors may be able to give speeds better than those. Dave, I hate to do thread hijacking.
But now I'm intrigued.What Linkstation devices do you have that you've got Lenny/Squeeze running on? Did they come that way or did you have to reflash firmware?
Is there some Tomato/dd-wrt equivalent for them? What cpu/ram do they have?I took a quick look at Buffalo's site and they only talk about the sizzle, not the steak. For thel life of me I can't figure out what is the difference between the CX 'cloudStor' and the WX series, other than the CX is cheaper.
Buffalo Linkstation Install Optware Tomato Garden
Also noted with amusement that Walmart has the LS-WX1.0TL/1D for $10 less that Newegg.I am currently using a cobbled-together homebrew PC running Lucid as a NAS with a 3-disk RAID5 (3-750GB). I also have it doing time-scheduled cron jobs to automatically download stock quotes and stuffing them into a csv file. When I started playing with Tomato, I installed the necessary development software so I can compile Tomato. This originally had an AMD 45W single-core CPU, but when I upgraded a broken desktop I freed up an AMD 64 dual core 3800+ and that's what it's running now. Gross overkill for my needs. Its got 3GM ram, because all my obsoleted SIMM got migrated to it.
Buffalo Linkstation Install Optware Tomato Sauce
I could probably do Tomato development in a virtualbox on my main Windows desktop, just never bothered to try it yet. I suspect that compiling in a vbox on an AMD X2 255 would be faster than native on the 3800+.I don't use the console, I connect to it with Xmanager from my Windows machine. LinkStationPro V2 is what I run now.