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Hi everyone,
This is not necessarily a V-ray problem, rather 3ds max or a problem in the communication between my computer and the NAS, but I know many of you here are very knowledgeable and I would very much appreciate your help:
I have recently purchased a NAS (Synology 220+, 2 drives, Raid 1), that I intend to use as a file server where I would store all my max scenes, assets and textures to be accessed on my local machine but also remotely.
The problem that have arisen is that opening and saving a 3ds max scene takes 5-10x as long as it would from the local disk, and starting a render takes somewhere between 2-3 times as long as from local. I have 1 gbit network and can transfer files to the NAS at a rate of 120 mb/s (1 gbit) without any issue. When starting max there are a few seconds initially when the computer pulls the scene from the NAS at a high speed, but then it decreases into almost no speed at all, it remains this way for many minutes until the scene is ready. Same thing when saving. When starting up a render, the transfer speed over network never seems to reach that high at all.
After countless hours of troubleshooting I have concluded that the problem is the textures. If I delete all paths, save the file and restart it, it starts very quick. Same thing if I override all materials and render, instantaneous. However the entire purpose of having the NAS is to have everything stored and accessible from there.
I have made exceptions in windows defender for the shared folder on the NAS, and for every directory related to the 3ds max install, and I am admin on my computer (win 10).
At this point I don't know what else I can do, so any help would be greatly appreciated!
Best / Olof
This is not necessarily a V-ray problem, rather 3ds max or a problem in the communication between my computer and the NAS, but I know many of you here are very knowledgeable and I would very much appreciate your help:
I have recently purchased a NAS (Synology 220+, 2 drives, Raid 1), that I intend to use as a file server where I would store all my max scenes, assets and textures to be accessed on my local machine but also remotely.
The problem that have arisen is that opening and saving a 3ds max scene takes 5-10x as long as it would from the local disk, and starting a render takes somewhere between 2-3 times as long as from local. I have 1 gbit network and can transfer files to the NAS at a rate of 120 mb/s (1 gbit) without any issue. When starting max there are a few seconds initially when the computer pulls the scene from the NAS at a high speed, but then it decreases into almost no speed at all, it remains this way for many minutes until the scene is ready. Same thing when saving. When starting up a render, the transfer speed over network never seems to reach that high at all.
After countless hours of troubleshooting I have concluded that the problem is the textures. If I delete all paths, save the file and restart it, it starts very quick. Same thing if I override all materials and render, instantaneous. However the entire purpose of having the NAS is to have everything stored and accessible from there.
I have made exceptions in windows defender for the shared folder on the NAS, and for every directory related to the 3ds max install, and I am admin on my computer (win 10).
At this point I don't know what else I can do, so any help would be greatly appreciated!
Best / Olof
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