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>>>Thanks...I wonder how well these things perform.
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>>I would not call the low end's (1100) peformance 'stellar'. But they can keep the 100Mb pipe fairly full when tasked. In a small workgroup like we are discussing, I would say more than adequate. Keep in mind, file sharing is ALL IT DOES. It's reliability, ease of setup, and low (zero) maintenance requirements, more than makes up for any perceived lack of performance. There are higher performance units if needed - , gigabit, RAID5, etc. - at a much higher cost. Spend $550 and tell me you hate it. :-)
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>Keeping the 100Mb pipe full is good enough for me (again, we are talking about workgroups).

The pipe doesn't get any bigger with a $20,000 server - unless you move beyond 100BT.

>It doesn't do much, but its cool. I didn't know that they were that affordable.

Did you look at the 'high' end? You can spend a lot if you need those features. But you don't have to setup/configure/maintain a server OS. Can't buy the server OS + CALs for this price. If you don't need NT domain/ 2000 AD stuff (and what small business does?), these are a perfect fit IMHO. I wouldn't rave if I hadn't used them successfully.