Yosesmite and unRaid 6 - SMB or AFP?


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  • 2 months later...

My experience is that AFP works better (meaning that it's overall slightly faster and less "lumpy") than SMB when writing general files from OS X to unRAID but SMB works much better for reading files. Reading from unRAID via AFP is terribly slow and very "lumpy", with long pauses when nothing seems to be happening. I don't know why this is the case as I would expect AFP to be the better choice for OS X. Other NAS devices, such as WD MyCloud and Drobo 5N work, as expected, better with AFP in both directions.

 

I'd be interested to read other Mac users' experience.

 

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My experience is that AFP works better (meaning that it's overall slightly faster and less "lumpy") than SMB when writing general files from OS X to unRAID but SMB works much better for reading files. Reading from unRAID via AFP is terribly slow and very "lumpy", with long pauses when nothing seems to be happening. I don't know why this is the case as I would expect AFP to be the better choice for OS X. Other NAS devices, such as WD MyCloud and Drobo 5N work, as expected, better with AFP in both directions.

 

I'd be interested to read other Mac users' experience.

 

I've seen similar experience with my Macs. AFP for writing is usually noticeably faster then writing with SMB, though reading with SMB is usually faster. Unfortunately, Apple still has a screwy implementation of Samba in OS X 10.10 and 10.11.

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My experience is that AFP works better (meaning that it's overall slightly faster and less "lumpy") than SMB when writing general files from OS X to unRAID but SMB works much better for reading files. Reading from unRAID via AFP is terribly slow and very "lumpy", with long pauses when nothing seems to be happening. I don't know why this is the case as I would expect AFP to be the better choice for OS X. Other NAS devices, such as WD MyCloud and Drobo 5N work, as expected, better with AFP in both directions.

 

I'd be interested to read other Mac users' experience.

 

I've seen similar experience with my Macs. AFP for writing is usually noticeably faster then writing with SMB, though reading with SMB is usually faster. Unfortunately, Apple still has a screwy implementation of Samba in OS X 10.10 and 10.11.

 

I second that - its impossible to browse my music share over SMB or AFP - only NFS works, unless I want to wait half an hour for a directory listing - though everything works great on a Windows. Tempted to jump back to MS....

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