Wilco (Wilco.Dijkstra.delete@this.ntlworld.com) on August 27, 2014 3:38 pm wrote:
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> You know Intel used to make the claim that the ARM ISA is not suitable to browse the internet.
> That sounds ridiculous now given there are far more ARM devices than x86 browsing the internet...
> But here you effectively say "ARM is not suitable for IO, you need x86 for that"...
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> The fact is none of this is in any way ISA related. The Marvell cores used in the cheapo NAS units are quite
> low-end compared to modern SoCs - some of them are still XScale derivatives. If someone wants to make a mid-end

Indeed, my Synology 4bay SJ-410j (ok it's quite old) has 800mhz Marvell ARMv6 core. Comparable to a Raspberry Pi, but crippled to a 16bit bus and only 128KiB RAM.

> ARM-based NAS with a modern ARM core or wider/faster SATA then that is certainly possible. The software stack
> can be recompiled for ARM due to being open source, so that's not an issue either. I'm sure you agree Cavium
> knows a little about NAS servers, and I bet Thunder X will end up in their high-end versions.
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> Wilco
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