I recently moved to another country and had to get rid of all my old computer equipment including desktop computer and NAS. I never had any serious performance issues with LR. For a while I used my laptop for editing and didn't have any performance issues with LR with that either.
Then I bought a new custom build stationary PC, much faster then the old one I had before the move. I also build myself a home built NAS running TrueNAS OS. I have measured that I almost max out my network (1Gbit/s) when moving files to the NAS. But importing with LR takes SO MUCH TIME now! I noticed a lot of changes have happened to LR while I used the laptop, not sure if that is causing this. But it easily takes 15-20 minutes to just import a few hunded raw files and my computer is working as crazy. Any idea what is going on? I have a bit over 60K of images in my library if that matters...
Check if you max out the network when importing. Are you building previews during the import? Is the database stored on the NAS or are only the RAW files stored there?
BTW: why do you prefer a NAS to the local hard disk? I have also changed the computer and just added local storage to it big enough to keep me happy for a while. The NAS is reserved for backups.
ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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