Re: [PLUG] NAS vs multi-bay USB external drives

2018-06-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 7 Jun 2018, Jim Garrison wrote: As I forgot to mention, and John Jason Jordan pointed out, the NAS approach is better if you need to share the disk with multiple systems. Jim, Not an issue here. I'm clearing out excess computers. And, if I need to access the data stored on the exter

Re: [PLUG] NAS vs multi-bay USB external drives

2018-06-07 Thread Jim Garrison
As I forgot to mention, and John Jason Jordan pointed out, the NAS approach is better if you need to share the disk with multiple systems. The USB option is a 1-to-1 connection, and any sharing with other computers would have to be over the network, with the directly connected system acting as an

Re: [PLUG] NAS vs multi-bay USB external drives

2018-06-07 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 08:30:44 -0700 Jim Garrison dijo: >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

Re: [PLUG] NAS vs multi-bay USB external drives

2018-06-07 Thread 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 mo

Re: [PLUG] NAS vs multi-bay USB external drives

2018-06-07 Thread Jim Garrison
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 re

[PLUG] NAS vs multi-bay USB external drives

2018-06-07 Thread Rich Shepard
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? Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/