To be fair CPU speed is not really an issue for file sharing as it just uses so little. My mobile phone could easily saturate a wireless network (and probably a 100mbit ethernet network) if used for plain file serving. More complex stuff such as media streaming can use more but for music it's negligible.
Anyhow, I've not seen much mentioned about the LG units. Synology make nice compact units and are generally held in quite high regard. SR have a review of the 410j (slower, 4-disk version) here:
http://www.storagereview.com/synolog..._ds410j_review
just to give you an idea of the performance and interface.
At the end of the day though, I wouldn't spend that much money on a NAS if you just want to share a bit of music and files between two laptops. Exactly how much are you going to be sharing and what will you be doing with it? It may be cheaper just to get a router with a USB port (if you don't have one already) and plug an external hard drive into it. You won't get as much performance but you could get a router + a 2TB hard drive for less than the price of the LG alone.
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Originally Posted by Cobbydaler
Appparently it's:
Processor clock speed 800MHz
Processor Marvell 88F6192
So two thirds the speed, but not sure that's important for my needs.
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It isn't, if you look at the review for the Synology you'll see it has an 800Mhz ARM processor too, and can serve up data at over 400mbps, far faster than your network or laptop could probably handle (wirelessly anyway).