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youngskywalker
Aug 07, 2014Aspirant
104 backup individual folders from external USB drive?
Hey, i recently purchased a readyNAS 104 without drives. i've put two old 500GB drives in it in a RAID 1 for now, until i can afford bigger drives. i've got 1TB external hard drive which is about 80...
StephenB
Aug 08, 2014Guru - Experienced User
USB access is slower than network access. Even the RN314 only writes to USB 3.0 drives at about 17 MBs. Not sure about reads, smallnetbuilder didn't measure them in their review.
ReadyNAS are optimized for network transfers, USB speeds are pretty slow on all the platforms.
ReadyNAS are optimized for network transfers, USB speeds are pretty slow on all the platforms.
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