Topic: SMB, External hard drive, USB3 speed, etc. (Read 4572 times)

nebelnic · « **on:** December 13, 2013, 12:31:21 AM »

Hello,
I'm planning to buy this router.
I'm mainly using a macbook air 2013 with 802.11ac wifi connection.
I would like to be sure that I would be able to mount the external USB3 hard drive on my mac with SMB protocol. Will it appear as a network disk in the finder?
I have read in this forum some feedback about the USB transfer speed. It seems to be more or less 10mbyte/s. I pretty surprise that with a wifi 802.11ac connection, we are not able to reach higher speed when transferring files from or to the external hard drive. Any comment about this?
I would like also to have your feedback about 1080p streaming on devices with wifi 802.11ac connection. Is it working perfectly as expected?
Thank you very much for your help!

FurryNutz · « **Reply #1 on:** December 15, 2013, 10:45:06 AM »

Link>Welcome!

What region are you located?

Please review this:
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=52676.0

There are limitations to drive sizes. I recommend 500Gb at the max. Performance, time and files can impact larger drive sizes like 1-3Tb.

Let us know what you decide to go with.

benzvi · « **Reply #2 on:** December 15, 2013, 07:30:55 PM »

Hi Furry,

I just got the DR 868L router. I connected a USB jump drive and it works well. I would like now to buy a USB3 disk for my large capacity cloud storage. Please explain your remark, how is performance affected by the capacity of the drive?

Thanks!

FurryNutz · « **Reply #3 on:** December 15, 2013, 07:34:34 PM »

USB is not as fast as LAN connections. USB is usually always a bottle neck. Also having a large drive size, the more files you put on the drive, the longer it will take the router to scan and catalog the files each time you add files and reboot the router to scan the drive. If your doing small xfers then performance is negligible. If your doing lots of large data xfers, and want good performance, network LAN is the way to go. Not trying to discourage, just be aware of this and alternatives.

Good Luck.

nebelnic · « **Reply #4 on:** December 18, 2013, 12:43:22 AM »

thank you!

FurryNutz · « **Reply #5 on:** December 18, 2013, 07:08:56 AM »

Let us know what you decide to go with. Over all its a great router. Works well. Good Luck.

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