Playing Wows on a NAS via SMB or iSCSi ?

[Herbstnebel1975]

Nothing is a as fast as a local SSD to load applications but in some cases it has an advantage to make use of a NAS. I 've both Synology and Qnap at my home and I use them for several things and filesharing is one of them.

 

Both World of Tanks and WoWs are installed on the NAS via an SMB share. The advantage is that I have to install it only once and you can share it with others (other housemembers can claim it and play it on their PC) but you have to be patient to load the game. For instance, if you start a battle you're just in time to see the countdown of the last 5 seconds before the battle starts.

 

Now I managed to configure iSCSi on both NAS's, created a LUN and now I'm gonna test if the performance is improved.

 

Mention that this is just a home LAN with 1Gb ethernet copperwires and the NAS has slow 5900 rpm disks in RAID 1 (none cached) .

 

Any other users here who have experience with gaming on external storage ?

[MaxxyNL]

Be careful with sharing 

 

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No Account Sharing or Account Transfer

4.8. Your Account is personal to you and must not be shared, transferred, or traded with any other person. Therefore, you must keep all information relating to your Account confidential. At no time should you disclose your password, secret question, or answer to anyone. This includes your friends, children, spouses, co-workers, clan members, and/or clan leaders.

 

https://legal.eu.wargaming.net/en/eula/

[Herbstnebel1975]

14 minutes ago, MaxxyNL said:

Be careful with sharing 

 

 

https://legal.eu.wargaming.net/en/eula/

It is not the account that is shared. You have to install a game once on a shared storage space. Than other clients can have access to the files or apps and start for instance, WoWs and login with their own (WG)account. ;-)

[Herbstnebel1975]

For world of tanks, the performance has slightly improved. For World of Warships, SMB goes very slow but with iScsi it's a huge differense. Maps are loaded faster and there are no lacks walking through the port menu.

 

Qnap config : Quad core cpu 1.4Ghz, 2Gb DDR4 memory and 2x 4TB 5900 rpm NAS drives in RAID 1 config.

Synology config  : Dual core  1.5Ghz, 1Gb DDR3 memory and 2x 1TB 5600 rpm NAS drives in RAID 1 config.

 

I bet if you use  SSD' drives you have the fastest NAS for all you housemembers. Just make use LAG config for the networkports on your nas and switches, it will improve your network if share storage with several clients at the same time.

[Panocek]

On 12/25/2022 at 10:16 AM, Herbstnebel1975 said:

Nothing is a as fast as a local SSD to load applications but in some cases it has an advantage to make use of a NAS. I 've both Synology and Qnap at my home and I use them for several things and filesharing is one of them.

 

Both World of Tanks and WoWs are installed on the NAS via an SMB share. The advantage is that I have to install it only once and you can share it with others (other housemembers can claim it and play it on their PC) but you have to be patient to load the game. For instance, if you start a battle you're just in time to see the countdown of the last 5 seconds before the battle starts.

 

Now I managed to configure iSCSi on both NAS's, created a LUN and now I'm gonna test if the performance is improved.

 

Mention that this is just a home LAN with 1Gb ethernet copperwires and the NAS has slow 5900 rpm disks in RAID 1 (none cached) .

 

Any other users here who have experience with gaming on external storage ?

For starters, WoW and I think WoT too store config file within game directory, so either everyone agree on keybinds/audio settings or skree will follow.

Login credentials I think are handled by WG launcher, so, technically, storing just game folder elsewhere might work?