LB on USB 3.0 carry case VS LB on NAS with USB 3.0

[gabinxs]

Hi guys and girls, first post on here...

First of all, this right here, in no way, is something that I can't work with, there are alternatives to avoid this, but I'm just curious to see why this may be happening or if it can be worked out.

I've been using LB and BB from a 3.0 USB carry case, with a 2 TB 5400rpm SATA HDD, and ROMS on one drive of my QNAP TS-251a nas.
It worked flawlesly. Between 5 to 9 seconds, LB opens, and switching between platforms, the game covers load almost instantly.
When I run a game, it copies it from tha QNAP folder to the carry case HDD, decompresses it and opens.

Yesterday I bought a new 8 TB 7200rpm SATA HDD to use it as a second drive on the QNAP, and I thought "well, let's put LB and the ROMS on this big fat drive".
Copied the LB folder over from the carry case and the ROMS from the other QNAP drive (took a while, I have almost 10.000 ROMS).
The connection between the QNAP and the computer is via USB 3.0 too (both computer and QNAP have 3.0 ports).
When it was done, I started LB and took almost 2 minutes to open. The switching between platforms was rather slow, and the covers took a while to appear.

The speed between how I was using it before and now was really, REALLY, noticeable.

Another (possible) problem that I haven't check yet is game loading speed. Since the connection with the QNAP is shown like network shares (*) and the LB folder and the ROMS are on two different shared folders (although in the same drive) when I execute a game, it copies from one shared folder (ROMS  folder) to another shared folder (LB/7zip folder) and decompresses it, so it's like copying between two computers from a third one, and that may cause games to take more to execute.

Any ideas, thoughts, comments? I'll appreciate your input. Thanks in advance!!

Gabriel

(*) I don't understand much how this works, but when I do the connection with a USB cable it opens a file explorer window with an IP -totally different from the LAN board IP- and shows the shared folders... maybe this could be the reason for all the slowing? It's like a 3.0 USB connection through a special software that QNAP makes you install.

[gabinxs]

reading a bit about the quickacccess connection (the usb connection I was refering to) on the QNAP, I found this:

"quick access uses a 1GbE virtual adapter..it doesn't matter that usb 3 can support more"

so maybe that's the main issue of this all... have you had any experience running LB from a network share, then?