Network drive slowness

Posted by Rafael Buono on Nov 09, 2014; 4:00pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Network-drive-slowness-tp5010338.html

Hi all,

I recently got our lab workstation connected through the 1Gbps network to the building's server. Among other reasons, I was hoping to process images directly from the network drive. However, even with the upgrade to 1Gbps, loading images in Fiji is still slow.
For example, it takes me at least three times longer (often more) to load a 200MB file directly from the server than to download it to the desktop and then open it.
Does anyone have experienced a similar situation when working with files directly from a mapped network drive?
Is loading a file from a network drive unavoidably slower than downloading it to the desktop and working with it locally, despite the network speed?
Is there a fix or a tweak to get loading files from mapped network drives faster in Fiji?

Thank you

Rafael

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