Use NAS for Media Storage

[Romfrosk]

Hi.

Currently setting up a massive collection of ROM for about 50 different systems.
And i want to store all Media files (Images, Video, Manuals ++) on a NAS drive.

All is connected on a GBit interface (NAS has 2GBit)

Would it be a major difference in performance compared to having the media locally?
ROMs are already stored on the same NAS

 

[Pr0FiT]

I do exactly this and it's fine. 2700 roms with images and manuals. Even stream ISO's to my ps3 from the nas...works better than the disc.

[Romfrosk]

15 hours ago, Pr0FiT said:

I do exactly this and it's fine. 2700 roms with images and manuals. Even stream ISO's to my ps3 from the nas...works better than the disc.

Nice

Do you run the entire software from the NAS, or only the Media/ROM files?

[Pr0FiT]

1 hour ago, Romfrosk said:

Nice

Do you run the entire software from the NAS, or only the Media/ROM files?

roms & media on NAS, connected to pc through drive mapping, software and emulators installed locally. I should correct myself and add if your games are zipped the startup time is a little bit longer...maybe 5-8 seconds more for a ps2 iso, My assumption is to unzip the entire file has to be transferred then unzipped locally whereas with ISO i think it's just streaming data as needed.

[Romfrosk]

2 hours ago, Pr0FiT said:

roms & media on NAS, connected to pc through drive mapping, software and emulators installed locally. I should correct myself and add if your games are zipped the startup time is a little bit longer...maybe 5-8 seconds more for a ps2 iso, My assumption is to unzip the entire file has to be transferred then unzipped locally whereas with ISO i think it's just streaming data as needed.

I try to extract the ones i can

Currently holding 5TB of ROMs.
Is there a way to set a default location for Mediafiles? 
Changing every platform manually is time consuming
(Starting the import of the library today)

[Pr0FiT]

I structure my stuff a little different than LB conventions so I'm stuck doing it manually but you can either do a mass-update using notepad++ search & replace or you can just symlink the folder to your mapped drive `mklink /j Images <nas path to images> `

[Romfrosk]

Thanks Pr0FiT

I'll see what i go for
currently only downloading smaller amounts of images while importing.
Then comes all the fun work with setting up RetroArch  + all the other Emulators