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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 1260103" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>There's a lot of factors at play here, and your level of satisfaction is contingent upon your expectations. If you're expecting it to perform at the same speed as an internally or attached drive, that's not going to happen. A hard drive connected to an internal, dedicated bus like SATA is directly integrated through the your computer's chipset. There is no "translation layer", like there is with network attached storage.</p><p></p><p>Will it improve with a hard-wired Gigabit connection? Yes. Will it be as fast as a Firewire or USB connected drive? Probably not. "Overhead" refers to the levels of translation a data packet must go through to traverse a network. When a device is on a local bus, the data has a more direct path. </p><p></p><p>In short, if you're expecting stellar speeds when editing high def video stored on a NAS, think again. If you just want to stream video across your local network or use it for backups, then that's perfectly doable. I just want to make sure you have a realistic expectation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 1260103, member: 24098"] There's a lot of factors at play here, and your level of satisfaction is contingent upon your expectations. If you're expecting it to perform at the same speed as an internally or attached drive, that's not going to happen. A hard drive connected to an internal, dedicated bus like SATA is directly integrated through the your computer's chipset. There is no "translation layer", like there is with network attached storage. Will it improve with a hard-wired Gigabit connection? Yes. Will it be as fast as a Firewire or USB connected drive? Probably not. "Overhead" refers to the levels of translation a data packet must go through to traverse a network. When a device is on a local bus, the data has a more direct path. In short, if you're expecting stellar speeds when editing high def video stored on a NAS, think again. If you just want to stream video across your local network or use it for backups, then that's perfectly doable. I just want to make sure you have a realistic expectation. [/QUOTE]
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