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Best practice to use + with a Synology NAS?
cxo:
Hi, there, I am new to this...
My NAS is a Synology 214+, it holds ca. 120,000 photos (RAW, TIFF; JPG); my computer is a brand new Macbook Air M1, both are connected via GBit. Unfortunately, Synology NAS systems do not allow any kind of direct access, only via network. When it comes to boatloads of photos, even GBit is slow. Did I mention the Synology has no 5GBit or 10 GBit connection? Only 1 GBit.
The first lesson I had to learn was: switch off AFP, use SMB to connect, it is much faster :-)
Well, faster... PM+ still gives an estimation of 1.6 days for metadata gathering, and I guess preview generation will be on top...
Are there any recommendations how to get the most speed and fun out of this?
Kirk Baker:
--- Quote from: cxo on May 21, 2021, 07:06:36 AM ---Hi, there, I am new to this...
My NAS is a Synology 214+, it holds ca. 120,000 photos (RAW, TIFF; JPG); my computer is a brand new Macbook Air M1, both are connected via GBit. Unfortunately, Synology NAS systems do not allow any kind of direct access, only via network. When it comes to boatloads of photos, even GBit is slow. Did I mention the Synology has no 5GBit or 10 GBit connection? Only 1 GBit.
The first lesson I had to learn was: switch off AFP, use SMB to connect, it is much faster :-)
Well, faster... PM+ still gives an estimation of 1.6 days for metadata gathering, and I guess preview generation will be on top...
Are there any recommendations how to get the most speed and fun out of this?
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If the speed of the connection to the data is slow, then building the catalog will be slow. There's no settings that can improve this.
But even when the catalog is built (hopefully you have the catalog itself on a fast local disk), performance is not going to be stellar because Photo Mechanic Plus is not yet optimized for working with a NAS. That will come in time.
-Kirk
cxo:
Thanks, Kirk, the catalog is on the built-in SSD of the Macbook Air, that is faster than fast.
I am just trying to find tweaks outside PM+ that can help PM+.
Chase:
I'm also using pm+ with a Synology NAS. It's borderline unusable at times which is probably just a limitation of internet speeds. I'm using a fiber gigabit connection but it still takes ~7-10 to Gather Sort Data and display images within a folder. the images are .jpg
davidgordon:
--- Quote from: Kirk Baker on May 21, 2021, 09:23:22 AM ---But even when the catalog is built (hopefully you have the catalog itself on a fast local disk), performance is not going to be stellar because Photo Mechanic Plus is not yet optimized for working with a NAS. That will come in time.
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Out of interest: a know nothing like me assumes a drive is a drive no matter how its connected. What's different about a NAS drive and a directly connected one? I see both mounted on my Mac. I assume the connection is made by the operating system and applications are blind to that process.
Thanks.
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