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Originally Posted by Dean
USB is slow, and router HW is typically slow as well. Share an internal or eSATA drive from a PC should be much faster, even an older IDE desktop drive will outperform a USB router drive.
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USB is certainly not too slow if they're just using it for sharing pictures and MP3s or something. It's not like they're booting windows off it.
Plus using the router as their NAS means they can turn off their PCs when not in use instead of leaving one on all the time as the file-share.