Originally Posted By: ReneB

But when one of the files is on a network drive, the conversion takes about 20 minutes.

It can not be the speed of the network, the network drive is on a NAS and i have transfer speeds up to 100MB/s.

I just have written a mail to support@pgmusic.com describing the problem.


Just a guess, but transfer speed comparisons might not be the same when rendering a song.
As far as I know, rendering involves an 'interweaving' process of the source files. This means requesting small chunks repeatedly from different drives.
A continuous stream of data is much different; so transfer speed measurements itself may be misleading.
I use multiple drives, but all internal, which works well.

Another thing to add to the equation in your situation is other network traffic. That can affect how fast the NAS actually receives the request, and how quickly its reply gets back to the system. Since it is a lot of small requests, this can add up quickly ..
I've often wondered about doing what you are doing (using network storage) so this is interesting, at least to me.

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