Thursday, December 29, 2005
GLAN Tank Media Server
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "HARDWARE" @ 06:00 PM
"Challenger, the PC power-user brand of Iodata Japan, announced its latest media server product, GLAN Tank, for January 2006. The case packs two 3.5-inch HDDs, each with 250 GB. Compared to former models it also features Gigabit Ethernet, XScale 416 MHz CPU, 128 MB memory, and four USB ports. The OS is Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 and Linux kernel 2.6.8. The server functionality allows usage of iTunes and other network player software, fileserver WebDAV, Telnet, Multicast DNS, FTP and Web publishing. The price will be around $215."
For $215, I think this is a steal. Half a TB of storage and support for a large number of network protocols, sounds amazing. I guess, you will have to settle with an Xscale processor and only 128MB of RAM but if the transfer rate is good then who cares?! We need some benchmarks. :)
For $215, I think this is a steal. Half a TB of storage and support for a large number of network protocols, sounds amazing. I guess, you will have to settle with an Xscale processor and only 128MB of RAM but if the transfer rate is good then who cares?! We need some benchmarks. :)
