CodeLathe TonidoPlug

[Veerappan]

...for these Marvell based devices ? I am tired of seeing simple reviews of these devices which do not even include basic NAS performance information ... Look at the size, ports, open source etc.
I had high hopes from Phoronix especially as the review states the Phoronix test suite runs but yet again no metrics !

Well, if Michael hasn't returned it (I'm assuming it's a review sample), he might still be able to run some numbers on it. The fun part will be finding something equivalent to compare it to. Maybe an Atom netbook/nettop running Ubuntu 9.04 for comparison. Once a comparison machine is found, a bunch of NAS/apache/DB benchmarks might be nice to have. Even something as simple as "how fast can you upload/download files over the gigabit network port from a client PC. I'm going to assume it's bottle-necked by the USB 2.0 read/write speed.

And a random question:
This device runs Ubuntu 9.04, and people have mentioned it can be flashed to Gentoo. How hard would it be to upgrade this device to Ubuntu 10.04?

[anwars99]

Will we ever get Performance Metrics ...

...for these Marvell based devices ? I am tired of seeing simple reviews of these devices which do not even include basic NAS performance information ... Look at the size, ports, open source etc.
I had high hopes from Phoronix especially as the review states the Phoronix test suite runs but yet again no metrics !

[rehabdoll]

Still waiting for someone to make one of these things with two ethernet ports, it'd give them a whole new range of uses...

Somebody already has. The Guruplug+ has two gbit interfaces, esata, bluetooth, wifi + other goodies. It does however suffer from overheating and other issues. So in other words i cant really recommend one at this time. Hopefully these issues will be solved in future revisions.

[yerfdogyrag]

I've had a TonidoPlug for a few months now and I really like the thing. To be honest, I ended up removing their software pretty quickly and just have it as a household server. It runs squeezecenter nicely for having house-wide music, it backs up my desktop machines and serves photos. I also have it grabbing caller-id data from my PAP2 and displaying it on the squeezeboxes. Fun toy :-).

I did try and have it run pyTivo to serve video to my tivo, but it was only able to encode about 4-5 FPS with ffmpeg. Go figure :-).

Gary Godfrey
Austin, TX

[Svartalf]

Missing:
- IPv6 support
- XMPP server
- SMTP server
- POP/IMAP server

Not hard to add, really. You can re-flash it like the PogoPlug/SheevaPlug (since it's the same thing)- but they'd imaged it with just what they're selling/supporting.

[Shining Arcanine]

Missing:
- IPv6 support
- XMPP server
- SMTP server
- POP/IMAP server

As far I know, Sheeva Plugs and their derivatives can run Gentoo Linux, which has all of those things as options, so you can install those things yourself.

[deanjo]

Still waiting for someone to make one of these things with two ethernet ports, it'd give them a whole new range of uses...

Plug a usb ethernet adapter into a hub.

[Sadako]

Still waiting for someone to make one of these things with two ethernet ports, it'd give them a whole new range of uses...

[devius]

This is just so tiny! By this rate, in a few years computers will come in the form of stamps

[sylware]

IPv6? XMPP? SMTP? POP/IMAP?

Missing:
- IPv6 support
- XMPP server
- SMTP server
- POP/IMAP server