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USB for a nas?! nope nope nope ~2012 mini-itx AMD C60 does 60Mb/sec, at the time was ~60€

• kingosticks 7y ago
  Can you explain why?
  • yaleman 7y ago
    Most external USB enclosures I've used run hot, die early and are dog slow...
    • kingosticks 7y ago
      I used an aluminium enclosure for a long time and no problems with heat. And perhaps that's why there were also no lifetime issues either. "Dog slow"? Yeh I agree but mine was USB 2.0. It's much less of an argument with USB 3.0 and even less again if you don't need high performance for your use-case (e.g. backups only). So I don't think we have answer yet as to why you wouldn't use USB.
      • michaelt 7y ago
        So I don't think we have answer yet as to why you wouldn't use USB. The short answer is "USB has a widely known bad reputation" How did that bad reputation arise? A combination of factors: * USB 2.0 * Platforms like Raspberry Pi, where both disk and ethernet are on the same USB link. * Sellers marketing products with the USB link bitrate (5 Gbit/s) rather than the rate of data transfer from the ideal disk. * Embedded platforms that don't have the performance needed to saturate a gigabit ethernet link (or 5 gigabit USB 3 link) * Articles like this, reporting "60-113mbps" without going into enough detail to determine which components are the limiting factors on performance.