Les Mikesell wrote at about 11:20:12 -0500 on Tuesday, May 17, 2011:
 > On 5/17/2011 10:25 AM, Timothy J Massey wrote:
 > >
 > > One option for using a NAS is to use a standard PC in front of it and
 > > mount the NAS via iSCSI (**NOT** NFS!!!) and use the NAS' storage that
 > > way. That will give you the best results: many have tried to use pools
 > > mounted via NFS, and few (none?) have succeeded.
 > 
 > Is there some reason for using a NAS? The only real win would probably 
 > be power consumption compared to slapping some big drives in an older PC.
 > 

Agreed.
Though I use an NAS and plugcomputer partly just for the fun of it :)
Another advantage of a NAS (or plugcomputer) may be it's size...

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