USB 3.0 HDD vs. NAS

[IriDium]

With Beta 1.1 I've not yet to notice a problem with USB. nor Windoze SMB or NAS SMB (I did try NFS and uPnP on the NAS but it was worse than SMB)

No point going for a USB3 as the PI is only USB2 (Unless you want to use it elsewhere).

If you have the N/W always running - then a NAS is probably the best way to go. I've used a TP-LINK DS323 and had no problems with it, ither on the Pi or anywhere else. The only work of caution - should it bother you - is that the disk has to be formatted as ext2 or 3 (if I remember correctly) so can't easily be slipped out and read via Windoze.

If you have a USB drive try that and see if you run into problems.

But...... money no problem :-) get a NAS (There's so much more you can do on it - torrents, FTP, backups etc etc.)