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How handy are you with the commandline ?

I know DOS. No linux practice

How big can the HDD be?

There is no practical limit (well, there is, but is is exabytes). But the maximum partition size for the ext4 filesystem is 16TB, so that might as well be your problem.

Flavio

Since you are kind, can I ask another question?

Is it possible to share an USB external HDD?

thanks a lot

Flavio

Yes, by default samba is installed and every mount point is automatically defined as a CIFS share that you can access from any compatible device.

If you want NFS, you need to install NFS server first.

There is an howto available in our wiki: https://wiki.openpli.org/Data_sharing

I've done it..!!

nfs client (from the box to an NFS server) yes, NFS server (from another client to the box) not without installing NFS server.

And yes, the USB ports of the box are slow, 25Mbps if you're lucky with a USB stick, probably a bit more with a disk.

Now I am transferring from W10 x64 client to HDD box in NFS share at a speed of 45-55MB/s.

Do you think that with CIFS sharing it gets faster?

1000 thanks again.

In general NFS is faster than CIFS, less protocol overhead. That speed is quite decent given the age of the box and the slow USB port.

Yes, nice speeds I would say.