Local hard drive remote access

[TheOldPresbyope]

This feels like beating a dead horse but since these statements were made

• 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.
  
• [speaking of the metal case] It also acts as a Faraday cage, significantly attenuating RF needed for WiFi, further reducing range and speed. 
  

I feel it appropriate to point out that there are alternatives. 

For example, one can use 

• a USB-WiFi adapter, perhaps even with an external antenna. RaspiOS devs do a reasonable job keeping up with the drivers for latest-and-greatest adapters (but can only do so if the adapter vendor cares enough about the non-MSWindows market to cooperate).
  
• a WiFi bridge (I re-purpose router/access points for this using DD-WRT or such 'cuz I prefer open-source software). 
  

I've done each in the past when circumstances dictated. Horses for courses, as my British friends would say.

Regards,
Kent

PS - I love irony as a rhetorical device but it doesn't translate well on the InterWeb™. It's hard to distinguish facetiousness from sarcasm and that can make all the difference.