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Problems with Newsbin and Samba drives

by Nom (Posted Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:38:11 GMT)
NewsbinDD, your router is almost certainly using an old version of SMB - probably v1.
There are lots (and lots) of improvements in the current version SMB3 - found in Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2. You can even do things like run a virtual machine directly from a hard-drive image via an SMB3 path with almost no performance hit.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/arch ... using.aspx
Between two Windows 8.1 machines, SMB3 shares are almost indistinguishable from direct local drives.

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