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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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- What is the benefit doing that? The speed of transfer isn't the issue, it's that it lags in beginning and ending transfers or access. Making my Macbook "beachball".
- Well, if the iTunes app is scanning through the folders, a slow WiFi connection might explain why that scan is taking so long.
BTW, is there any easy way you would tell if this happens with a smaller music folder? (e.g., one w/o thousands of subfolders). Maybe saving off your iTunes Library, and building a new one with a smaller music folder?
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