I took the liberty of opening Documents, Pictures, and Music to make a quick illustration along with a few of the network shares.
Using the Music example is one that many users will want to try. The easiest way to setup a library is to open the Windows Start Menu and right click on the relevant library. Telling Windows 7 to look to network storage lets one easily access network storage from the Start menu or Windows Explorer. Setting Windows 7 Libraries to use Network Storage Windows 7 Libraries It should be noted that other NAS platforms are just as easy to configure so long as network shares are accessible. Using this, setting up applications to automatically take advantage of network storage is very easy. For this I am using the test WHS (PJK-WHS2) virtual machine which has things like the music, public, photos, and videos folders mapped to network drives. Finally, for solid state drives that use compression like those based on Sandforce controllers, using network storage provides plenty of performance oftentimes better than the Sandforce SF-1200 controllers.įirst off, the best advice I can give is to map network drives to the share locations. Another advantage is that once data is written, the data is also read in sequential fashion making great candidates for NAS storage. I decided to take a few snapshots of the test network using Windows 7 libraries, iTunes, Amazon MP3 Downloader, Handbrake and FRAPS which all have highly sequential writes. A question that came up recently was how does one setup common applications that work well with NAS systems to write data to network storage versus solid state drives.
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