Local hard drive remote access

[Miss Sissy Princess]

I do have ethernet near by so I might just plug it so I am allowed to have nice things in my life again!

If it's an option, go for it!  Here are some graphs that show the vast difference in speed between gigabit Ethernet and WiFi on the Raspberry Pi boards:




Notes:

• The graphs are not on the same scale, with the Ethernet bargraph topping out at 1000 megabits/second and the WiFi topping out at a mere 120.
  
• The Raspberry Pi boards (at least recent models) use simple planar resonant cavity antennas etched onto the PC board.  No matter how "fancy" your WiFi access point or router, and no matter how high a speed it's advertised to have, you're still going to be limited in speed by the rather simplistic etched-on-board antenna of the Pi.
  

I'm running a Pi-4B with an external USB SSD.  I took some time out of my busy trolling schedule to run this test to share what kind of R/W speed I'm seeing to the moOde shared drive over gigabit Ethernet:

   
About 104 MB/s write and 106 MB/s read (for those who would rather not click the image). That's essentially the same as my RAID 6 NAS with an SSD cache drive.

I have an aluminum case on my Pi-4B that acts as a heatsink:




It also acts as a Faraday cage, significantly attenuating RF needed for WiFi, further reducing range and speed.  It's a spectacularly good case that keeps the Pi-4B running cool with no fans, but I bought it knowing I was going to used hardwired Ethernet.

I hope that you find some of the above useful and I apologize if my prior post, a less than fully successful attempt at humor, caused offense.