Except .. most USB HDD go to sleep pretty aggressively so the latency on spin up (particularly for high platter count drives) can be in the region of 6-8 seconds. Would bet the qnap will manage this better than a USB HDD firmware does. Network latency should add relatively little to the transaction. Second I would bet the qnap performs better. Most USB HDD are optimised for streaming not IOPs (as backup drives) so I'd say no it won't perform better.
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