smb is slow and you have quite a large collection being imported. I would *guess* that dt has not had time to generate the previews yet. perhaps a better plan would have been to download the images to the smb drive or via nfs/sshfs first and then to import to dt. but that would probably still have been much slower than a local drive.
I had considerable issues with DT files stored on USB connected to a router (make believe server) and shared using SMB (took forever to import and work).
Oddly enough - if I am to copy the images back and forth using Nautilus or command line - it would work much faster.
Few months ago I changed the firmware to an open source one and gained access to NFS shares on the router. Since then - the speed have increased significantly. I mean specifically when DT r/w from the router.
Few days ago I copied more than 10k directly to the USB (connected to the router and shared over NFS). I am currently working out of it directly - on a 8 year old laptop and the speed is okay. I mean - the bottle neck is not any more the router. If you are on synology - you *should* be able to have NFS share. For me - the experience with DT reading images over NFS is much better comparing to the one over SMB. You may be able to improve r/w performance on SMB with forcing different mounting options like smb version but none of it was very reliable for me.
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