On Thu, Jan 22, 2026, at 2:52 PM, William Park via Talk wrote:
To those running NAS,
I'm thinking about turning my current i3-4170 desktop into NAS.
What protocols do you use? Do you run both "NFS" and "SMB" on it? Or, just "SMB"?
I run a Synology as my NAS (which offers both NFS/SMB), and just like many people I have found SMB to be faster than NFS on my Mac while reading data off the NAS. However, this discussion reminded me of this article from an year or two before. https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/macos-finder-still-bad-network-file-c... It is a bit Raspberry specific about its discussion, but I liked the variety of tools Jeff used to debug his transfer speed. I have found it useful enough for my needs. I now have a NUC running Ubuntu directly attached to my ISP router running an iperf3 to test transfer speeds to my wifi/ethernet clients. As well as an iperf3 on my synology, to compare iperf3 numbers with smb numbers to see how much the protocol needs as overhead (not a lot for sustained transfers, if I recall correctly). - Sandip