08-24-2025, 02:45 PM
My dad recently started using Lightroom with a brand-new Synology DS1522+ NAS. He transferred all his photos to the NAS, while keeping the Lightroom catalog on his Dell XPS 15 laptop.
Everything worked fine at first, but now he's running into a major issue: everything has become painfully slow, importing, exporting, editing, even loading previews takes a long time.
He’s been connecting to the NAS using Tailscale, since he's currently away from home. That’s when the slowdown started.
We’re wondering:
If anyone has experience with this kind of setup or suggestions for improving speed without compromising data safety, we’d really appreciate the help!
Everything worked fine at first, but now he's running into a major issue: everything has become painfully slow, importing, exporting, editing, even loading previews takes a long time.
He’s been connecting to the NAS using Tailscale, since he's currently away from home. That’s when the slowdown started.
We’re wondering:
- Is this kind of performance drop normal when using Lightroom with a NAS over Tailscale?
- Is there anything we can do to make things faster and smoother from the NAS side?
If anyone has experience with this kind of setup or suggestions for improving speed without compromising data safety, we’d really appreciate the help!