I have a rb2011, I know that a true NAS is better, but I just need a “simple” storage for a surveillance camera…
In the meanwhile, may I just use a usb disk connected to the usb port, or it is “possible, but with problems” ?
Is there enough power for a 2,5" disk or should I use a powered hub?
Greetings
I think that is not possible.
You can Mikrotik not use for nas.
Storage is for use transparant proxy or for using the dude or logs.
In the meanwhile, I found these:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/mikrotik-smb-with-external-hdd-or-usb-drive/62932/1
http://gregsowell.com/?p=3485
Seems somebody has done it, I’ll try when my setup will be ready.
Does somebody else use it? I was just wondering if there are drawbacks or problems…
Thank you
I have try i can write to the disk but cpu load is verry heavy on a 600 Mhz CPU
To 97 Percent this is to mach.
I have a file transferred to the storage on the mikrotik
This is not to do something like that
This have a made and tested for you.
http://www.wirelessinfo.be/index.php/mikrotik/pages/smb
I hope so to help you
So you tested a big file transfer and got a very high cpu usage…
Seems quite weird to me, anyway obviously RB2011 is not a NAS 
Maybe FTP works better, I’ll try when I’ll have my stuff working… Then if cpu usage stays high I’ll just buy a nas
Thank you
Hello,
I suggest to use a real NAS for those action related to the camera stream
will be really strong beats the cpu of the RouterBoard.
For other actions it´ll perhaps march and run but for this action likes storing camera streams
it would be better to run a real NAS then USB disk attached to a router.
I checked the wiki:
Mac OS 10.8 not supported for SMB, really?
I was thinking of maybe moving the crappy and slow disk sharing of my Airport Extreme to the RB2011.
The only reason I’m still using the AEBS for this is that I can format the drive as HFS+ so that it can be repaired with DiskWarrior, and that it supports Spotlight and AFP [Time Machine also works, but it is unsupported, and I wouldn’t risk it given my experience with this box]. That would be the holy grail, I haven’t been able to find any real NAS like that. Anything would be a win over the AEBS.
Perhaps if the RB2011 series will be owning one or two miniPCIe slots with support for mSATA
drives that would be a really deal and hint to store big data fast enough and share them over
the entire network. With fast Intel mSATA drive 80 GB, 120 GB or more Gigabytes it´ll be
a really fine solution.
No, I have more than 1TB attached to it. A USB hard disk is fine. The AEBS shares at 2 MB/s.
In the meanwhile I bought a NAS, maybe I’ll test usage of rb2011 as a secondary storage or something like that…
Thank you all
Goodluck