[PragmaticPulp]

80MB/sec is actually quite fine for most NAS applications.

Anyone trying to get 10G speeds out of a high end NAS won’t be looking to Raspberry Pi solutions right now, anyway.

The real advantage, IMO, is that this helps kick off the popularity of DIY NAS solutions based on ARM hardware. It’s not the first solution in this space, but Raspberry Pi is great for taking things mainstream.

I imagine that a few years from now we’ll have an even faster Raspberry Pi to build a NAS around. These current-gen solutions might be just what we need to get the software sorted out before the powerful hardware arrives.