A Non-Expandable NAS Review

LevelOne NAS GNS-1001 has a fast PLX NAS 7820 ARM11-based dual core processor running at 750MHz. Unfortunately, like most low-end NAS, it’s not expandable. Unless you hack into the kernel, you cannot install any applications nor plug-ins which limits its capability to what it was designed for.

I am a little surprised that it may provide faster read speed via Samba than QNAP TS-112 which has a Marvell 88F6281 ARMv5TE-compliant single core processor running at 1.2GHz. Again, it’s difficult to compare NAS on datasheet.

Using Microsoft Networking via Samba with QNAP TS-112 and LevelOne GNS-1001

Most NAS, even the low-end models, provides Samba. Once connected, you may use file manager like Nautilus in GNOME for drag-and-drop operations as local files.

It is a file sharing protocol.