Hi,
I have set up a new NAS system (FreeNAS 11.1) in my home network, providing SMB (version 3) shares to all my PC’s. The new studio PC is one of them. Since I have terabytes of storage on this NAS, all my PC’s only have quite small SSDs to run Windows 10 and the local programs. Everything data-related is stored on the NAS.
My plan was to install all SDX/SD3 sample libraries on a mapped network drive (mapped in Explorer as D:\ for example). Now if I try to install any of the libraries (Avatar, Metal Foundry, SD3 Basic Sound Library,…) the installer does not let me choose any network drives. I only see local drives (in my case the only partition on my small SSD -> C:\).
I then tried the following workaround:
Install the library locally on C:\ and afterwards copy the contents to the network drive and change the library path in the Product Manager. That worked just fine, BUT… if the Product Manager finds an update, the installer recognizes the correct path (e.g. D:\Samples\SDX-Avatar) but won’t let me install because it says “offline” next to the path. I my opinion the network drive is far from offline, because every other tool works just fine on it 🙂
What is the reason I cannot use my network storage with Toontrack software? I feel like this is a very common thing nowadays and given the fact that SD3 is 250GB of size it is practically made to be stored on a NAS system opposed to a local drive.
My NAS system is connected with 10Gbit LAN and has super fast NVMe SSDs in it and I cannot use them.
Any help is appreciated 🙂
~ Dom
