Fastest USB 2.0 performance : router NAS or WD TV Live NAS?

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I have the newer WD TV Live.

I want all my media to reside in an external 2 TB USB hard drive, but i,m wondering where to plug it to serve as a NAS…

Which do you think would give better overall performance (playing files from WD TV Live or any other computer).

-into the WD TV Live (with NTFS partition) or;

-into the Linksys E3200 router (running DD-WRT with ext3 partition)?

Everything is wired (not wireless). Since USB 2 is the bottleneck, it should not make a big difference?

For some reason, I like the idea of using the WD TV Live as the NAS.

Any thoughts for or against?

Thank you for reading my post!

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Into the WD TV Live would be the best.

Real transfer speed will be near 3x times fastern than your wired network.

[Around 31MB/s vs 12MB/s]

But theoretically a 12MB/s network speed should be also enough to handle any playback smooth.