NFS vs WINS(smb)

[plopke]

Well I am very novice to all this nas stuff, but just got myself a Synology 210j
and I was wondering.

So I have 2 ways to set things up


-NFS but then I have more work on my windows machines I guess.
-WINS server

I googled around a bit and most links NFS vs SMB go about linux servers and not very recent.

Is the performance gap that big or really small that I might as well pick the easy solution?

 

[msl]

Personally, I wouldn't bother with the hassle of trying to setup NFS on a Windows machine. I would just use SMB.

I don't know what the performance of different NFS implementations on Windows are like compared to SMB. I can tell you that when copying a large file (8GB) between a Windows machine and my DIY Linux NAS using SMB, I get read speeds around 100MB/sec and writes around 90MB/sec reported by Windows. So SMB performance on Linux (some flavour of which your NAS is probably running) is pretty good.