DIY NAS Smackdown. diy nas smackdown. Bill Meade compares homebrew NASes using ClarkConnect, Ubuntu and Windows XP Pro and comes up with interesting and surprising results.. If I build the cheapest non-RAID NAS I can, how well will it perform? The purpose...

• -Performance - Read
• -Configuring ClarkConnect - more
• -Configuring ClarkConnect - Samba , more
• -Configuring ClarkConnect - Samba
• -Configuring ClarkConnect
• -Installing ClarkConnect
• -Closing Thoughts

on the DIY NAS. Just for fun, I installed Free NAS .671 to compare with the Ubuntu results. Averages tend to hide things, but I've computed the average read and write speeds for the TeraStation and the DIY RAID 5 NAS using Ubuntu and FreeNAS .671 and summarized...

in. Finally, we've added some performance data from Bill Meade's popular Build a Cheap and Fast RAID 5 NAS and DIY NAS Smackdown articles to the charts. These articles were the direct result of the discussion in the NAS Chart Forumz and provide some insight...