XDA Developers on MSN

I replaced my iSCSI share with SMB, and I could never go back

I switched to SMB since iSCSI ghosted me a couple of times, and now I enjoy file sharing with no fear and regrets.
XDA Developers on MSN

I configured Wi-Fi and Ethernet on Windows 11 to achieve faster SMB multichannel speeds

The convenient cross-platform compatibility is one of the reasons I keep going back to SMB in my home lab. Theoretically, the SMB multichannel feature enables SMB servers and clients to leverage ...
Computer Weekly

NFS vs SMB vs CIFS: File storage protocols defined

Network file system (NFS), server message block (SMB) and common internet file system (CIFS) are all file access storage protocols, used to access files on remote servers and storage servers (such as ...
Ars Technica

Server 2012 SMB Multichannel - bandwidth aggregation per TCP/IP session

I was just reading about the new SMB 3.0 features that will be released with Server 2012 and Windows 8. One of the features that really has me intrigued is the new SMB Multichannel. SMB Multichannel ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft drops SMB1 firewall rules in new Windows 11 build

Windows 11 will no longer add SMB1 Windows Defender Firewall rules when creating new SMB shares starting with today's Canary Channel Insider Preview Build 25992 build. Before this change and since ...