Write performance for Zyxel NAS540

beuford

Does the NAS540 with 5.21 support Time Machine over SMB? That's kind of what is expected in High Sierra. AFP is being depracated and most are turning to SMB for faster backups. However, support requirements for time machine over SMB are pretty specific.

Also, in my informal testing I found that, at least with my Macbook Pro 15, that SMB 3 with signing turned off gave the best performance (~100MB/s up and down).

Can anyone confirm Time Machine support over SMB3 for the NAS540?

Beuford

beuford

Well, since no one replied I decided to upgraded one of my macs to High Sierra and see if I could get Time Machine to work over a SMB connection.

I CANNOT configure a SMB connection for time machine to the NAS540.

I CAN configure a SMB connection to a late-model WD MyCloud (and their site claims recent support for this option).

While I believe that the version of SAMBA in the NAS540 is new enough to allow this functionality, it does not seem to be configured for it and I'm not enough of a Linux guy to get it up and running.

Anyone else want to try? Here are some interesting notes from some samba developers:

https://github.com/samba-team/samba/pull/64

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12380

beuford