Terastation II Pro - SMB/NFS or AFP over VPN?

[nullfork]

   

Hi,

 

I am considering buying a Terastation Pro II NAS for a small office. Users often connect to the office via VPN and have a need to access the files on the NAS.

 

I know of SMB latency / slowness issues over VPN, my question is; is NFS or AFP faster? From what I believe NFS will be faster, as long as I install an NFS client on the remote workers windows machines..

 

My other questions is; are the sharing protocol (SMB/NFS/AFP) settings configurable, so I can tune the read/write/block size to get usability over a VPN? (some screenshots would be great!)

 

Also which version of NFS does the latest firmware implement, if it is v4; would if be safe to use this straight over the internet (TCP) without VPN encryption...

 

Thanks!

 

 

Message Edited by nullfork on 03-05-2009 03:53 PM

[Dan_C]

The NFS version is 2 on that device with the newest firmware. The speeds that you see with a SMB mounts are most likely going to be the speeds that you see with AFP. I'm afraid that the sharing protocols are not configurable as far as I know.