Would USB2 over ethernet perform better than NAS?

[DrMekon]

Ive always been really shocked by the shoddy performance of gigabit NAS.. which performs only margiinally better than 100mbps/12MBps.. you get no where neare its true speed, or even anywhere near the max capability of the disk itself.. complete wast eo f money IMO...

I notice now you can buy network usb hubs.. would these provide a better throughput to a usb disk, than nas's do over ethernet..???

I know ethernet is still the underlying medium here, but surely the gigabit nas solutions are just false advertising!!! USB2 has capability to reach 280mbps/60MBps whichwould easily outperform gb nas...

 

[DrMekon]

USB 2.0 max speed is 480Mbps if i'm not mistaken, so if gigabit's is 1000Mbps, i'd say the USB connection is the bottleneck

Well, purely based on speed yes.. but Ive never seen a gigabit nas perform more than about 15MBps, whilst typical HD can write at least 60MBps and gigabit spped is around 125MBps... Its just a marketing scam really, when they perform not much better than a standard 100mbps, but they charge lots more money for it... the bottleneck is the NAS alone....

I was looking at a dedicated server, but I want somehting really small!!!