For studios and teams with a NAS

Why network drives are especially slow

With local files Windows reads from your own disk. With a NAS the network is involved, and every single file has to be requested. Folders that were bearable locally take a multiple of that over the network. And because Windows only starts when a folder is opened, it happens again at every workstation.

What changes

• Preparation runs in the background, before anyone opens a folder.
• It runs at every workstation for that station's own set of folders.
• Speed governs itself so the network is not loaded permanently.
• Very large archives benefit from Turbo Cache on top.

Licensing in a team

Network drives and NAS are part of Studio, licensed per device. For several workstations, invoicing and quotes see Teams and studios. In isolated networks, offline activation is the way in.

Honest about the setup

A large shared archive means real work on the first pass. The sensible approach is to start with the active project folders and add the archive step by step. Keeping everything warm at once is possible, but rarely the fastest route to a noticeable result.