Raspberry Pi as ftp server?

[Nognir]

I was thinking whether I should get myself a Raspberry Pi to build a mini ftp/mpd server in order to have access to the files and media of my external drive when away fom home. I was told that the file transfer performance of that would be too slow to be usable... Any thoughts on that?

 

[liveunderwater]

Access to files should be fine but if you mean to stream media from it I doubt the rPi could keep up.  I talked to and did simple data transfer to and from my rPi and Pandora between Tokyo, Japan and Chicago,IL.

 

[Nognir]

I don't think streaming music would be that cpu intensive... Is there another solution on that in the <100E range?

 

[Linux-SWAT]

It can do the job very smoothly.

Don't forget to secure a bit.

Never used it, but icecast has a good reputation:

http://www.icecast.org/

 

[rohezal]

Sending data is no problem for a 700 mhz cpu. For a simple linux far less is enough to act as a file server via ftp. Using an arm based system (openrd ultimate) for file transfers too, even with encrypted filesystems I have more then 10MB/s over ethernet with smb. Be careful that your bandwidth is enough. I streamed a rendered animation over my slow internet connection (was almost not compressed), it was very slow.