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Originally Posted by blue68f100
With most any HD the size is raw before the file system. So 233g is pretty much std as will all OS including MS NTSF.
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Yeah, but I formatted it on my linux machine with XFS, and it took something like 50MB off the raw value. Not that it matters that much, I didn't really look that much into it. I'm good with 233GB.
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As far as transfer rates as long as you use smb/cifs you will use samba to handle the transfer. The only way around it is NFS, or use only FTP.
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Yeah, I noticed NFS is much better throughput wise. I have no problems using NFS, the issue is that I need to set this up for Windows Users, who do not have NFS clients. I looked into this ability for windows XP, but have so far found no free NFS clients which appear just as standard network drives on XP, if anyone has any ideas I would be very interested
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If you move to a larger or newer units this picks up. But the 1000 were the second model that Snap Applinace made, in 1998. So if you compare what hardware was being used in 1998, these were fast units 9 yrs ago. So use 9 yr old hardware with your snap and you want notice it being slow. 
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Hehehe, The snap server is replacing my old mini Server, which is a nice 233MHz Slot 1 Pentium 2, with 128MB Ram (The machine had a PCI SATA card, and 5 x 250GB drives in software raid 5). My family was complaining about the noise and size of the thing. Plus as I'm moving out I want the old server to myself :P Saying that, my newest PC is from 2001, all the others are from the 90's, I even have a DX-4 still going strong all these years.
I was just suprised with the performance, thats all. If there is no real performance benefit to downgrading to a 3.4 OS then I wouldn't consider it really. I just hope that the snap server will be able to keep up with movie and music streaming (which is what it will be primarily used for)
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Technology has revolved in 9 yrs, with the exception of MS New MEII (vista). Microsoft always find a way to mess things up.
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Lol, I really do not have much else to say, except I agree =) Although personally I have not used windows since 99, so it does not make much of a difference to me anymore.
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If you want raw speed move to a 4500.
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Oh don't remind me =) I had a 4500, a nice rackmount with 4 hard drives in it, but I managed to mess up the motherboard during an upgrade, so I bricked it
(I have since replaced the Snap motherboard with a mini-itx, and loaded linux on it. It now serves as a music/itunes/slim server).
I still have a Snap 2000 that I have not done anything with as of yet, if I have any issues/questions with it I'm sure to post here again