Hi,
as the wi-fi routers’ WLAN speeds increase to 866Mbps (~ 100 MB/sec) after IEEE 802.11ac, practical throughput values tend to beat wired gigabit Ethernet speeds
Even brand new NAS My Cloud EX2100 reaches only to 100MB/sec (both read and write). NAS My Cloud (single drive) provides about 30MB/sec write and 60 MB/sec read). and is the communication bottleneck between the notebook and the external drive (since the drive in the box can provide values between 100-150MB/sec according to the product used in the box)
So, in order to share home data in an external drive remotely over internet or locally at home, it becomes better to use a USB 3.0 external drive connected to the USB 3.0 port on the wi-fi router instead of using NAS boxes having a wired gigabit ethernet port. So, we won’t be limited by the processor’s network performance of the external drive box. Instead we’ll be limited by the USB wireless adapters’ speed which will be increasing day by day (866Mbps today), and which is relatively easy to replace to upgrade our wireless home network’s performance
Having said that, USB device port of the My book drives becomes more critical. And having a modem/router with a USB 3.0 host port becomes critical as well. for example Asus RT/DSL-AC68U or Linksys XAC1900. Asus modem/router products provide a disk compatibility table ( http://event.asus.com/2009/networks/disksupport)) (and there’s another one for linksys in another forum post) to be connected to the USB ports on their products.
But when asked, they don’t provide any info whether RAID disks with USB ports (just like WD My Book Duo) are supported or not supported or practically works or practically doesn’t work (even if not officially supported). The same for you, even for WD’s single drives (which you can find in another post in this board)
So can WD simply check in labs whether My Book Duo’s work (and/or are supported) behind the USB ports of wi-fi routers.
Or is there anybody who uses My Book Duo connected to the USB host port of a wi-fi router or modem/router?
