No need to check availability of NAS every 5 seconds

[andybob (Andrew Cox)]

Brian posted his views about using a NAS for music storage here:

My experiences with Rock and a 500k+ tracks library

I hate NAS’s for music storage. I know that some people like them/need them, and we do support them, but I wouldn’t use one for Roon (or any software trying to manage 50-100k+ music files) for myself, regardless of library size. They don’t support real-time watching for file changes very well, scanning them over the network takes 10-20x (or more) as long as a local disk. Because they don’t support filesystem watching very well, you pretty much have to scan the whole folder tree periodically to …

Whether or not the issue about frequency of pinging the NAS can be improved, there are good reasons to store the music on a USB SSD and just use the NAS for back up.