My gut told me to try a different file protocol. I’m sitting here browsing this VM going “Whaaaaat? What is this sorcery?” Opening the same folder on my Ubuntu virtual machine was instant. Opening a folder full of images? We’d expect to wait 10 seconds to see all the images. It’s interesting because browsing the same files on bare metal (my Macbook) via AFP always had quite a bit of lag to it.
I fire up the Ubuntu file explorer, connect via NFS, and am browsing at lightning speed. Thankfully the WD M圜loud line supports both AFP and NFS out of the box. AFP doesn’t work in Ubuntu out of the box, instead, Ubuntu connects via NFS.
Our connection strings generally looked something like week or so ago, I had a need to connect to this NAS via an Ubuntu virtual machine.
To solve that problem, our corporation purchased a WD M圜loud NAS with 8TB of storage from our friends over at Amazon.Īs the entire office operates on Macbook Pros, we were in the habit of accessing this NAS over the standard AFP file protocol using Finder.
As with most small businesses, we need to share files with each other. I run a business that specializes in technology consulting.
