Slow Transfer for Multiple Small Files and Slow Saving Visual Studio Files

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QuantumDynamix wrote:

Large files seem to transfer very quickly (anywhere between 30-70MB/S). Small files transfer at a a fraction of this speed (10KB/s - 7MB/s). 

 

Additionally, if I work on a Visual Studio projects housed on the server, saving and compiling SASS files or creating Solutions can take upwards of 4 minutes. When done locally from files on my machine, this task is normally completed in 5-15 seconds. Also, I continue to get messages that say that files have been altered outside of the Visual Studio interface and I can't seem to figure out what might be causing files to change.

 

I'm at a lose for how to improve this performance. I need to transfer hundreds of thousands of small files from our old network "solution" (which was a drive connected to my computer) and I need Visual Studio files to save quickly without having to move them back and forth between machines.

 

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I don't think any NAS will handle this particular task very well.  CIFS itself is not well suited for handling massive transfers of small files.  Even an RN716X with a 10 gbit network connection only manages 10-20 MB/sec on the NASPT directory copy benchmark.

The usual answer to this challenge is to use a source control system of some kind - so the NAS can centralize the software branch storage, but the builds/development are done with local copies,  You could possibly use some sync software to obtain a similar result.