[PLUG] NAS vs multi-bay USB external drives

[Rich Shepard]

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