Thread: Intel SS4200-E NAS-storage device.

Today I accept a detailed look at Intel's most low-cost NAS device, the SS4200-E. Intel's Product Page for the SS4200-E reports that this is a memory device aimed at the SOHO and little Business markets, a market that we may ordinarily categorize as constituting from one computer up to about fifteen or twenty computers.

These cases of networks frequently do not have substantial necessitates for really fast memory - unlike more prominent network environments where the device is behaving lots things at the same time and replying rapidly is the only path to assure the device is not overloaded, small business surroundingses often have just one computer getting at the device at the same time.



As a outcome, it seems that lots little and cheap NAS devices are built to be "OK" for a individual user, and conflict to be classed merely as "atrocious" when two or three people attempt to do matters at the same time.The 2 specs that actually jump out at me are the CPU and the RAM. It may not audio like much to the gamer with the water cooled overclocked quad core monster personal computer, but a 1.6GHz Celeron is so much more able than a lot of the cheap consumer NAS devices out there.

As lately as two years ago I was handed a four disk NAS with a 200MHz custom CPU that could handle just five MB per second, yet was touted as constituting state of the art. 512MB of RAM is also decidedly beefy for a consumer NAS, and the compounding of these two items promises functioning that may, only maybe, exceed a individual hard disk from ten years ago.The SS4200 has an strange layout.