Dear Lazyweb: Network Storage options

[da]

Anybody happen to know the relative speeds of NFS, AppleTalk file-sharing, or Windows file-sharing (samba)? All are choices open to me for a file-server (to be used by mac clients, either wifi or ethernet). If all are equally efficient/speedy compared with 802.11b/g, that's fine too. :)

Google seems to mostly get me product pages for NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices.

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[oldgrover.livejournal.com]

Appletalk is, unless they've revamped it, slowest.

NFS is likely to be fastest (I've gotten faster saves over NFS then saving to local disk (though this was under some pretty specialized conditions, of course)), though Samba probably comes close.

Samba is probably easiest - NFS has some not so fun issues from time to time (both SMB and NFS are bletcherous, but Samba hides a lot more of the disgusting nature of the protocol then most NFS implementations do)

All file sharing protocols suck. Samba probably sucks the least out of the listed implementations for file sharing protocols.

-OG