wishlist - ultra 2/4/6 with sandybridge and hdmi

TeknoJnky wrote:
even copying thousands of small files across a LOCAL drive is slow.

I suppose that it depends on your definition of slow. But copying thousands of small files at 68.8 MB/s using a Vertex 3 sounds a lot faster to me than 0.499 MB/s with the WD20EARS alone. The SNB result of 14 MB/s for the Ultra 4 copying a directory of files was most likely not caused by using slow disks but rather because no mechanical disk has good performance for this sort of test (but SSD's do).

Granted, for a remote drive perhaps some of that performance advantage would get lost with the ethernet and CIFS overhead but I would still expect a NAS fronted with an SSD cache to have dramatically superior performance to any other consumer NAS out there at the moment (if implemented well).