squirrellydw Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 So I use all Mac in my house but connecting to AFP is SLOW. Would using SMB and NFS be any better? Quote Link to comment
John_M Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 It really depends which version of OS X you're using as to whether SMB might be a better choice than AFP. Remember that not all Intel Macs can be upgraded beyond Lion. With Mountain Lion or earlier you're probably better off with AFP. With Yosemite or later you might be better off with SMB. With Mavericks... well, it's probably best to avoid Mavericks! If you want to use unRAID as a Time Machine destination you need to use AFP anyway. NFS is a bit more fiddly to set up (meaning you can't just browse and click in the Finder but have to use the Connect to server menu and type nfs://tower.local/mnt/user/share_name) but it works pretty well with all OS X versions I've tried. Sorry I can't give a definitive answer because, as ever, YMMV. Quote Link to comment
jphipps Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 I am also all Macs, and I have found that NFS works the best for me. I have started testing SMB with the new beta of 6.2, but use NFS from most mounts... Quote Link to comment
gtroyp Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 The first thing to look at is the version of unraid you are using, Mac functionality has improved for me with every incremental step up I've taken. Although I haven't been using the 6.2betas, I've been holding off on beta software this time. YMMV, but I have been using SMB for file sharing since Yosemite, and it's been flawless. I use AFP for my TimeMachine share only, and that works well now (I think AFP was updated in 6.1). Quote Link to comment
squirrellydw Posted May 1, 2016 Author Share Posted May 1, 2016 All my Macs run Yosemite, I have used AFP forever now and it just seems to be getting worse. Guess I will switch to SMB and see if that helps. Quote Link to comment
John_M Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 Just try each protocol for a few days and see how things go for you. You might find that one protocol works best when writing large amounts of data and another works best when reading large amounts. Quote Link to comment
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