Re: Hard drive to connect to Superhub 2
 

But you don't need USB to use a NAS, it's attached to the network.
NAS = Network Attached Storage.

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To use a NAS you really need to connect via a Cat5/6 cable

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It doesn't matter as it's not active. May as well stand for UselesSBus.

It's 2.0, FWIW.

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Just out of curiosity, any ideas why they deactivated the USB socket? Seems like it would have been a fair "selling point".

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But open up a whole new can of worms for the Support Desk ..... ;)

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Truth..

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A little NAS like the Synology or Qnap models will do the trick. They are simple and do the job.

If you have a computer that is always turned on, then you could just use windows sharing to share a folder on it. Should be able to do this with any usb connected drive, although it's not something I have tried.

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Thats why you buy a seperate Router and you can control it your way,

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Speed.

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I have got a Seagate NAS and a Buffalo Terastation, I defo prefer the Buffalo.

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Does any NAS get anywhere near 1Gbps write transfer speed?

What are the constraints? Like is Windows 7 a serious constraint?

Re: Hard drive to connect to Superhub 2
 

Mine read around 97MB/sec and write between 55-63. If i send a tonne of stuff across in one go it normally flattens out at 55.

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Mine gets 10Gbps write transfer speed, but being mine, it's basically cheating.

Windows 7 isn't a constraint, quite the opposite, Windows 7 contains new high-throughput features that most NAS devices don't support.

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Mine was a shock compared to my old Windows Home Server I built on an HP Server.
The replacement NAS is nowhere near as fast, in fact with a large number of small files, it's pretty poor. Can't remember the figures off the top of my head, but it's not great.

However, the upside is the electric bill :)

I really didn't realise how much the WHS was costing to run 24X7 ......... the NAS is very, very economical in comparison.

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How much did you figure it was running, adduxi?