itunes ultra-slow accessing library on smb-storage

hello everyone,

i own a macbook and had my itunes library (about 250 gb of music and videos) on an external harddrive. since i was slowly running out of space and did not want to plug in an external drive each and every time, i decided to hook up a large hdd to my wireless router (tp-link 1043n) and store all my media files there.

I access this smb-shared drive over wireless. I've tried wired as well. access via finder is not very fast, but acceptable. access with itunes is SO VERY SLOW! deleting a podcast or tv episode or synching my ipod can take half an hour or more - with a spinning beachball and all. itunes becomes totally unresponsive.

I have searched the forums and found some articles on issues with the finder and smb shares, like

SMB Network Share Access slow

Another Snow Leopard NAS SMB issue. Directory delay

but not a really viable solution. I do not have access to any "server"-side software, since that server is only a router.

i know there seems to be a deeper issue with snow leopard and smb shares - but is there any quick fix for this? slow or medium speed would be totally sufficient! please help me stay "unplugged" 😉

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.4), Router TP-Link 1043N with 2 GB USB Drive

Posted on Oct 5, 2010 3:46 AM

17 replies

Jan 10, 2011 1:35 AM in response to dinvlad

Well, my signature says that I have a Acer TM372. No Mac user unfortunatelly yet...

My NAS does "speak" AFS, it is a QNAP TS-239, but I don't think that my Windows box is friends with that, is it?

Should I be wrong, please let me know.

Thanks a lot,

Aug 30, 2012 8:29 AM in response to krisWALD

Hi.

I've come late to this party, but was having the same issue.

I have a Mac Mini mid 2010 model, 250gb, 8gb ram and was running Snow Leopard. Had all my music on a Raid 5 8TB NAS (wired) and spent more time waiting for the beach ball to disappear that it made using iTunes unrealistic, so moved it all back onto my Mac.

So, now have updated to Mountain Lion, was thinking of trying this again. :-/

Has anyone else gone to ML and had it work?

cheers

Barry

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