Exporting variants to Synology NAS via Powerline

MERE

• July 08, 2021 11:32

My situation is :
Capture One 21 for Nikon
Windows 10 Pro
Synology NAS connected via Devolo Powerline and Fritz!Box
Images stored on NAS, Catalog stored in local SSD of PC

When selecting e.g. 300 image variants it takes quite long (about 2 hours) exporting them to NAS.

Any advice to speed that up ?

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  Frank Mantek

  • July 21, 2021 12:38

  There is more data needed to understand the severity here.

  a) how big are the images?

  b) what's your actually network speed? (i used to have powerline in an old house, it maxed out below 1mbit/sec there).

  Using a NAS will always be slow (slower) as long as you are not connected with >= 10gigabit network. But it should not take 2 hours.

  And to clarify: you are creating variants (they would be stored then on the NAS as well, right?) and you are exporting them to another place on the NAS then? If you are doing that you are at least incuring 2x the costs of transfer (variant on NAS goes to your PC to go back to NAS).

  If i take my setup as an example. My RAW files are around 50MB per photo. So if my assumption above is correct, you are transfering this around 600x. In 2 hours, that's 300 per hour, that's 5 per minute, that's a good 4Megabyte a sec, so 32megabit/sec. That is not counting any kind of cpu overhead.

  So, yeah, that's certainly possible.

  Frank

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