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YankeeInLondon:
Does having the media on a SAN cause problems? I'd have thought this would be a reasonably common configuration? Are there any caching settings locally that I can boost to improve things?
wer:
Having your media files on a NAS is lower performance than having them on a local drive, if the local drive is of reasonable speed. Dramatically lower in some circumstances. Many people put their media files on a NAS, but the goal is not speed.
Your thumbnails are not actually stored in your library. You should double-check exactly where you have them stored.
If you have the option "Update tags when file info changes" enabled, then when you edit the metadata in your library, MC will try to write those tags to the media files themselves if appropriate. It can go into disk wait while doing so. It might even have to wait for the drives to spin up, if your NAS has idled them. That can take many seconds.
If you turn the option off, all writes will be local. However, then your library metadata will be desynchronized with the metadata in the files. This has downsides as well.
HaWi:
FWIW, I have my media files on a Synology DS1819+ connected via Ethernet/Switch to my iMac, where I run MC26. The folder containing my media (~20000 audio files) is permanently mounted as an SMB3 share on my iMac. I have "Update tags when file info changes" enabled and do see some performance degradation but totally acceptable. It takes a few seconds to update 20 tracks.
cheers,
Hans
wer:
Indeed, I didn't mean to imply it's not a workable solution. Lots of people put their files on a NAS, and find the performance totally acceptable. A lot can depend on how the NAS is configured, and what kind of work you're doing.
YankeeInLondon:
--- Quote from: HaWi on June 13, 2020, 10:40:19 am ---FWIW, I have my media files on a Synology DS1819+ connected via Ethernet/Switch to my iMac
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@haWi it appears we have a very similar setup. I have a Synology RS1819 ("plus series" as well). On the off chance this has happened to you I am suddenly not unable to do virtually anything on the Synology as it claims my volume utilization is 100% which makes no sense as I only have a single 10TB volume and it's disk utilization is 44%. CPU and Memory are also very comfortably low. I now have a help desk request in to see how to get my NAS back into a working status.
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