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Travis, haven't had time to research yet, but is there a size limit on copying and pasting folders from a PC/Mac to a folder on the NAS? I was trying to copy over a 55GB folder with pictures and it canceled without transferring any over. I am not using sync because I was looking at moving all the files to the NAS and keeping Mac HD fairly clean and possibly downsizing to a lower capacity SSD, so I'm not going to want the files both places.
How is working with photos supposed to be faster? I copied just a few pictures over to see how it would work and when I tried to work with a 15MB .psd file, it took it 30 seconds or so to open it from the NAS, whereas when I opened the file from the Mac, it only took 5 seconds, maybe. I was just wondering if I needed to configure something in order to make it speedier since you said it is supposed to be good for photographers.
I installed Plex and tried to play an .m4v movie (Frozen digital copy downloaded from iTunes), but it said it can't play it. When I researched that, Plex said that ARM based CPUs cannot handle .m4v files. What types of files can Plex handle and how should I go about converting them? I tried using Handbrake, but it didn't convert so I'm guessing I would need to decrypt it before using Handbrake?
khkman, here is a response from some of our product guys. Let me know if this is helpful.
File transfer
Is the userattempting to do this copy via ReadyCloud? Is the NAS on the same local network
as the PC or at a remote location.?
I have experienced this issue whentransferring large files to a mapped NAS through Windows Explorer. Idon't believe this is a limitation of the NAS, but of the computer that is
transferring the files from. There are other clients that can be used for
this type of transferring, or as Matthew suggested, he can use ReadyCLOUD.
Photo editing
The photo editing experience should be better than this. A few questions I have are: How is his
computer connected to the network/NAS? Is he on a Gigabit network (gig
ports, CAT 5e cable or better, etc.)?
There may be a weak link in his network that is slowing down his transferring/editing.
Plex
The 200 Series doesn't support transcoding through Plex, so .m4v formats will not work (you can learn more about Plex limitations
here). MP4 format is guaranteed to work with the RN200, but I believe that the Direct Stream content should play as well (need to do further testing).
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200250387-Streaming-Media-Direct-Play-and-Direct-Stream