AFP Vs SMB Vs NFS: Which Is The Best Data Transfer Protocol?
AFP Vs SMB Vs NFS: Which Is The Best Data Transfer Protocol?
NFS is a protocol used to communicate between two Linux systems.
AFP is for communications between Apple devices
SMB is a Microsoft universal protocol that is easy to set up and use.
You can enable any of these protocols on your NAS. But performance will be affected since there are different platforms trying to communicate.
We run few tests to find out which data transfer protocol will be the fastest in Linux, Windows and MAC systems.
We tested Upload and download speeds. There were 9GB of video files used for data transfers.
