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Speed dealing with Folder with thousands of subfolders
So this is super general, but I have a ReadyNAS Duo 2150, the old one, and it's main use is serving music to my Macbook Air. It's painfully slow when say, playing one song and then doing anything else on the NAS simultaneously. Beachballs forever. Is this most likely due to the ReadyNAS itself, slow hard drives, or just the nature of this setup as a whole? I'm new to NAS and this was bought used, drives and all, so I'm trying to figure if I can speed it up or if I should get a new unit?
It's just really getting old dealing with having to re-setup my iTunes Media folder location constantly, etc.
And one song was just playing, I delete another song during and now I'm editing this thread while it beachballs.
It's just really getting old dealing with having to re-setup my iTunes Media folder location constantly, etc.
And one song was just playing, I delete another song during and now I'm editing this thread while it beachballs.
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- The web interface is slow, and low priority, adn the sparc processor is also much slower than the newer ReadyNAS. But it shouldn't beachball when streaming music.
Are you accessing the NAS over WiFi? It's possible that your wireless connection speed is the bottleneck. - I'm not using the web interface for anything currently. I just have my iTunes music folder stored on the NAS and play it from iTunes. So it's not "streaming", just playing from the NAS. I add and delete songs way too often to simply stream from the NAS using Firefly. And yes, it's connected to my Airport Extreme via ethernet and I access it via wifi, but that really shouldn't be the issue.
- Any more help?
- So you have the itunes database on your PC, and it is very slow when you add/delete songs from iTunes?
Or is it very slow when you add/delete songs using SMB/CIFS or AFP??? - The iTunes library is on my Macbook Air, but the folder containing the mp3s is on the ReadyNAS in the Media folder.
Ok.dozens wrote: The iTunes library is on my Macbook Air, but the folder containing the mp3s is on the ReadyNAS in the Media folder.
That would be a wifi connection correct?
Also, can you clarify more precisely what is slow? Adding/deleting songs hosted on the NAS in iTunes, copying files to/from the NAS, playing songs hosted on the NAS in iTunes? All of the above???- Wifi is correct. The MP3s are stored in a Media folder on the ReadyNAS, which is connected via ethernet cable to my Airport Extreme router. I access the MP3s via my Macbook Air.
Regarding what is slow:- It is ALWAYS whenever I am doing two actions on the ReadyNAS, which doesn't surprise me. Such as playing a song and adding another group of songs to the drive & library.
- It is SOMETIMES very, very slow when in normal use, say, when you are switching songs it will take 10 seconds or so.
- It would be helpful to rule out WiFi. Do you have an ethernet USB adapter for the Macbook?
Also are you accessing the NAS using AFP? or SMB/CIFS? - I do not have an adaptor unfortunately. I am using AFP.
- Maybe try copying a reasonably large file (100-300 MB), and time it. That would give you some idea of the transfer rate you are getting with WiFi (taking iTunes out of the picture).
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