I have my 343 connected to a SOHO Gigabit switch. My PC (also gigabit) is connected to that same switch. I have an external USB HD (formatted in NTFS) connected to the PC.
I'm currently copying almost 300GB of data to the 343...and I'm going on 7 hours waiting for it to finish.

I've copied that same chunk of data many times to a local HD on that PC and it takes less than 3 hours.
Can I connect the external HD directly to the 343? If so, how do I access the data? Thanks.