Photoshop CS5 performance over network drive (cifs)
- by grub
Hello Everyone
I did install a QNAP NAS TS410 for a customer (professional photographer) with 3 Hitachi Deskstar 7200rpm 2TB disk configured as RAID5. The NAS and the workstations are connected over a Gigabit network.
He and his co-worker are accessing the photos (about 1TB of photos) over a mapped network drive from their windows machines (Windows XP - 32bit and Windows 7 Ultimate - 32bit). Both are using Photoshop CS5 to edit the photos.
The problem is that to save a edited photo takes a really long time, it takes about 3 times as long to save a photo as to open it.
After some tests I can exclude the network, the NAS and the windows machines as source of the issue. I think the problem is the Photoshop software and its handling of the network drives.
Officially network drives are not supported by Adobe.
I do not have any experience with the Adobe products, especially with Adobe Photoshop CS5.
What are your recommendation to solve the performance issue?
Should my customer copy the photos to the local drive, edit them and upload them again to the network drive or is Adobe Drive or Adobe Version Cue the answer?
One requirement is that the photos need to be accessible / editable from both computers even when one of them is offline. Adobe Version Cue needs a dedicated service running to be usable, so this solution is not possible as far as I understand the Cue software.
Thank you for your input to this issue and have a nice day :-)
Greetings
grub
