On Thu, 7 Jun 2018, Jim Garrison wrote:
Different connections. NAS usually runs over Ethernet and uses NFS or SMB remote drive sharing protocol over TCP/IP.
Jim, I thought this to be the case because it makes sense that it's a network node.
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.
This is good enough for me. It's also much simpler to maintain. Thanks very much for clarifying, Best regards, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug