Re: Switching from workstation internal databases to NAS or Cloud

Posted by Dusenberg on
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I also store all my 'final' images on a Synology NAS via 1Gbe wired connection, and the dk database on my workstation on SSD. No issues with dk performance, and startup scan is so fast I don't notice it.  I also use darktable in a similar manner - images on NAS and db on workstation - and also have no network performance issues.  However, the workstation is a Ryzen 3900 12-core with RX5500XT gpu, and 2 SSDs on which digikam runs 24 threads for its startup scan . . . . 

Before I built the workstation, I used an i5 laptop and that was SLOW on the wired connection and painfully slow/unusable on wifi. I put this down to network speed and NAS speed (2 HDD in RAID0), so had planned to upgrade the NAS to a 4 HDD in RAID10 (stripe of mirrors) with a 2x1Gbe aggregated LAN connection, after the workstation was up and running.  But then I found that the workstation was so fast that the NAS and network upgrades would make only marginal difference to performance so I shelved them.  In my situation raw compute power proved the most important factor.

On 27/01/2021 18:53, woenx wrote:

I store all my pictures in a NAS, but I keep my database on my local
computer.

It's not super fast, but it's definitely usable. It takes a while to scan
for now pictures on startup, but once it's done, it works quite well.

I think the most important factor is the network latency from your computer
to the NAS, more than the network speed.



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