iPhone wrote: > Sounds like your PC is fine. The slow part is your NAS. That type of > NAS was not made to deal with 4TB of FLAC files during scanning.
Actually, its safe to say that no consumer NAS is going to have good performance during a library scan. To pull the tags out of the music files, you have to read the files. Sometimes you can just read the start, sometimes the end, sometimes all of it, depending on file type, tag type, etc. Here is a simple experiment to give you an idea: Copy a couple of albums worth of files from one directory on the disk to another. Use about a gigabyte of files (say four FLAC encoded albums). See how long it takes. Then multiply that by one thousand times the number of terabytes you have. Its a really, really big number. Way back when I was working at a streaming music company, and we scanned 40,000 CDs, we used to use swappable disk drives to move files, rather than using a 100baseT Ethernet. It was much faster to shut down the two computers, swap out the drive, carry it 10 feet, and power up the computer than it was to copy a 40 GB disk. Disks are only slightly faster now, and they are much, much bigger Pat -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
