AirPort Disk Slow....

[Cuniac]

sorry in advance as I could not find the airport form. I am trying to use the Airport disk option in my AirPort Extreme AC to have NAS for my MacBook Pro. Sadly it's soo slow... I'm using a USB 3.0 drive that gets good read/wright when directly connected to my MBP. However, when going through the Airport, it's moving at like 1/10th the speed. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[JTToft]

Sounds normal. For one thing, the USB port on the AirPort Extreme is only USB 2.0. I believe the vicinity of 20-30 MB/sec is the expected speed.

 

[Jozone]

Sounds normal. For one thing, the USB port on the AirPort Extreme is only USB 2.0. I believe the vicinity of 20-30 MB/sec is the expected speed.

Interesting that its only USB 2.0, when one of the main benefits of AC is the throughput over the LAN.

OP: Time to get a proper ethernet based NAS if you want faster read/write.

 

[T5BRICK]

I see about 10 MB/s transfer speeds on the HDD attached to my 5th gen AirPort Extreme. It's just slow, unfortunately.

 

[priitv8]

Interesting that its only USB 2.0, when one of the main benefits of AC is the throughput over the LAN.

That is because AirPort's bottleneck is CPU, not the USB port.
PS I believe AirPort-related discussions are mostly in the Mac Accessories section.