Unity and NAS

Has anyone used Unity and NAS before when working on a game, does it work reasonably well?

I'm getting an NAS for my media files but I was thinking of possibly extending it for game development as well

 

How do you extend a NAS for game development?

If you mean working on your project while it's on your NAS storage, I personally wouldn't even consider it. The Editor is accessing files constantly so I imagine it'd slow things down. Accessing the same project simultaneously from multiple PCs is just going to corrupt stuff, so it's asking for trouble. And I'd want version control anyway, so it's not saving space, it's just a different location.

That said, if you have the project on your computer and put a "remote" version control repo on your NAS that's definitely workable. I did basically that for ages, and everything was groovy.

 

It's super slow and annoying while Unity constantly taps NAS files. I tried it and it was way too problematic.

 

If you use a read / write SSD cache or an SSD raid volume then it shouldn't be a problem, but as angrypenguin said, don't access the same project at the same time from other computers. Also, I would still use source control. In my case I tried it with a Synology DS918+ RAID 1 HDD only, and it worked fine, but I didn't want to wear out my HDDs, so I am going to invest in an SSD cache once I am starting my first real project, I am still learning at the moment.

 

What do you mean?