

What’s even more funny, I have a friend who works for Apple and apparently they use NAS storage in some teams and deal with the exact same annoyances! Aside from the constant mounting and unmounting (fun!), it’s just plain unreliable and slow.Īnd people have been complaining about this for years. On MacOS, connecting to anything over SMB is a total nightmare. Browsing huge directories of thumbnails is snappy, file and folder names appear instantly. On Windows, it literally feels like the NAS is an extension of my local hard drive. I have a Synology DS220+ and connecting to it from a Windows machine vs a MacOS machine is like night and day. What’s more likely, is Apple’s notoriously unreliable implementation of SMB causing the problem (and that’s the only option now that AFP support on Mac is dead) Filesystem likely doesn’t have anything to do with it.
