[X4U] NAS and AFP

[Stroller]

On 10 May 2007, at 03:08, Neil wrote:

> Rick's mention of AFP made me think.  Would I be better off with a  
> NAS that supports AFP?  I know that the Infrant ReadyNAS supports  
> AFP.  Does that work better with Macs than SMB (which is from the  
> Windows world).  I thought both would be fine, so I didn't bother  
> to spend the extra bucks for the Infrant.

I have experienced a 2x speed increase when transferring from a Linux  
box (which is what most of these NAS are) to my G5 by switching from  
SMB to AFS.

However for general purposes (transfers of < 5gig at a time,  
typically < 500meg) SMB should be quite adequate - the slowness you  
describe sounds more serious to me. Is it possible the h/d inside the  
NAS is dying? Unless warranty is applicable to this unit I would be  
inclined to open it up, replace the h/d & see if that makes any  
difference.

Stroller.