On 6/7/2018 7:27 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > For infrequent use I want to consolidate usb-connected hard drives in a > single case. What are the relative advantages of a regular multi-bay > enclosure and a NAS enclosure?
Different connections. NAS usually runs over Ethernet and uses NFS or SMB remote drive sharing protocol over TCP/IP. USB uses a totally different, native and much more efficient driver stack, and if capable of USB 3 can be pretty close to native eSATA speeds. I don't have specific speed comparisons but with NAS the NFS/SMB protocol and the need to chop things up into TCP/IP packets slows things down, even if you have 1Gbps ethernet. Take your two choices and find out what the sustained read and write speeds are. -- Jim Garrison _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
