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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · FreeNAS (9.3) with Lightroom? Any problems over the long term? | |
Has anyone ever used this setup before? For reference, I'm using Lightroom 4, which is rather dated, but I presume the latest version isn't too much different, and using a typical wired gigabit ethernet setup. Most of my photos are a little over 20MP, taken with a Canon 5D2 or 5D3.
For the longest time, I've stored my raw photo files on a (commercial) NAS which is mapped to a network drive, in lieu of storing them on a local hard disk. In the past, when I click on a new photo that I haven't clicked on during this lightroom session, it's taken between three to five seconds to display it at full resolution when the view is zoomed in at 1:1.
A few days ago, I built up a FreeNAS box from an 5-year-old desktop that was recently retired, this is more than capable of saturating the gigabit ethernet. And yesterday I finished copying all my raw photo files onto this. I removed the old network drive (served by the commercial NAS) and switched it over to the FreeNAS box, now when I click on a new photo in lightroom, it takes a very consistent 2 seconds before it is displayed at full resolution (view still set to 1:1 or 100%).
Has anyone used a FreeNAS setup like this over the long term and had any problems with it? I plan on keeping the commercial NAS maintained and running, if anything I can always switch over to it as a backup. So far the FreeNAS box has only been running a few days, it seems reliable but it's hard to say how reliable the FreeNAS software is going to be over the long term.
Which is my question, has anyone used this type of NAS over the long term? The reason I went with FreeNAS is b'cos people I've talked to irl swore the performance was great, better than anything commercial at the price, and it's done a good job at that (IMO). But I wanted to ask how reliable the software it has been over the long term, for anyone who has used it? Any bugs, showstoppers, or the like that I should know about? The only downside that I've found so far is the FreeNAS box is an absolute power hog, consuming around 110W when not in use and 160W when in use, but I can live with that.
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