The collected works of bifferos

Hi,

I noticed this thread as it seems to be bringing more than a few people to my site (thanks ), however I have to point out that the two items above are not the same hardware. Most of the 'NAS dongles' out there now have 16M/1M DRAM/Flash whereas the Bifferboard has 32/8. If you want to run Linux, because you'd like an NFS server, for instance, then you'll probably find it a lot easier with the Bifferboard. Of course, if the NAS does what you want out of the box, no problem (and the setup is easier). You'll probably notice that NAS dongle is cheaper than Bifferboard + case + PSU. There is a reason for this!

I'm posting this because we've had a few people who bought the NAS dongle come to us and ask us how to convert it to a Bifferboard, which is a little cheeky, but in all cases so far it turned out we couldn't even if we wanted to.

thanks,
Biff.

Hi Diego,

Thanks. I'm afraid I know next to nothing about SGI, and only registered to post the clarification, so the forum 'captcha' was a little hard to figure out, but I got there in the end . At the moment we're a fairly small concern, and have no resellers, however we ship all over the world, and had no problems sending to Argentina so far. Although we've been selling the Bifferboards for a couple of years I feel there's still a lot of untapped potential. I've been meaning to get usbip working on this for some time ( http://usbip.sourceforge.net/ ). Pah... too many cool projects, and too little time .

cheers,
Biff