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General Category => Off-Topic => Topic started by: dj_buckley on 2025-04-11, 16:36:31

Title: Network Drives
Post by: dj_buckley on 2025-04-11, 16:36:31

All of my Projects and Assets are stored on my NAS,  I'm just rebuilding my PC's at the minute and wondered if there's much difference between these two options with regards to DR?  Should either be avoided?  Are either faster with regards to saving/reading/writing/loading etc?  Or does it literally make no difference?

I'm not technical but the way i understand it, one maps to a drive letter, the other doesn't.

Title: Re: Network Drives
Post by: Nejc Kilar on 2025-05-08, 12:45:14

I'm not quite sure either but I would imagine both methods would pretty much have the same bottleneck? Prepping & transferring files over the network.

Title: Re: Network Drives
Post by: maru on 2025-05-08, 13:47:25

Some quick googling suggests that the difference is mostly in convenience (having a drive letter). A network drive can be set to reconnect automatically (although I guess a network location will also "reconnect", e.g. in case of some connection issues). If I remember correctly, apps running in admin mode may have problems accessing network drives (not sure about network locations though).