Storing data on NAS Network Attached Storage? 
Author: Samuel HandelmanI am using Website X5 Evolution 14, using Windows 10, have the following drives
C: is the primary drive for operating system and programs
D: is a 2nd internal drive, used for data
N: is a NAS Network Attached Drive, connected via the router which is where I want to store all of my data (if possible)
I tried moving my data to the N drive (I was able to this by the following procedure- when first open the program click on PREFERENCES, under GENERAL / PROJECTS FOLDER- designating the location in drive N)
But I noticed that performance was VERY SLOW. So I moved the data back to my internal 2nd drive (D) and it works much better.
However, I would like to have my data in the NAS drive N, which I have syncronized with another Nas offsite- for duplication and redundancy.
I do make frequent backups, which I save in the NAS, but is there any way to have the data in the NAS, and have fast access?
I save my site data on my local hard drive for speed of access, but I use my NAS to do (roughly) weekly backups of my projects, so there is a safe copy of my latest sites that can't be affected by a computer failure of any sort.
I don't know enough about access speeds in a NAS to help you in that area - my NAS is quite an old unit and I know that newer ones are much faster. I will see what I can find out from a Google search, meantime there may be other users who can offer some ideas.
Samuel, my experience has always been that external storage devices are much slower and frequently unreliable, even on a high speed network the actual network overheads cause delays, but these are made worse by many NAS devices (mine has a high speed network port, but I am sure that it is only capable of USB2 throughput speeds). I have found the best approach is an automated backup which results in files that can simply be copied back using Windows Explorer, and I like it to run on startup.
There are many free utilities https://www.lifewire.com/free-backup-software-tools-2617964 but being a bit fixed in my ways I still use SecondCopy (although it is not quite free)
I work on a local SSD but have a Subversion Server running on my NAS where I store all relevant project data, especialy the .iwzip.
Georg - and from past experience, I hope you keep multiple iwzip files (I rename them when they are created, I just wish Incomedia would do it for me with (1), (2), (3), etc suffixes in the name) in case of a delayed catastrophe :-)
Esahc - Subversion is a version control system. You can recover each version you committed. So commiting each day after your work you may loose max the work of the day. :-)