[RKDinOKC]

Good Afternoon group. Completely overslept. Can't have anything to do with working really late can it?

The network vs local drive access is at almost a tie with current hardware. You would really have to set it up and do speed test to see. Being an old guy I would think working off a USB3 SSD external drive and sneaker netting to work with other computers would be good. But I don't know if the programs working on such large files would be faster on an internal SSD versus a USB3 SSD. Or if the time savings of sneaker netting versus net transfer would be worth it.

Way back when had a Gigabit switch and gigabit cards in workstations. Ran 2 nic cards in the file server. Rest of the company was on 10mb ethernet. The server had a array, striped using fibrechannel to the server. Server file access was as fast a internal drives. That was a long time ago when you could first get gigbit stuff. Really pissed me off with the IT department came in and swapped my Gigabit switch for something slower "so it would match the rest of the network"? Raised a big stink. There is a reason why I was Network Admin for a while. Besides the fact they couldn't figure out how to route Appletalk/Bonjour.

My only big file concerns now are backups. And my only network speed concern is wireless streaming. My biggest streaming hog is streaming 1080p to my laptop and screen sharing that video with 5.1 surround to my AppleTV to watch on my big Sony. Requires some wireless horsepower. That's why I put up the wireless bridges/extenders.

Would be really neat if I could network mount my AppleTV, iPhone, iPad like I can my other Macs. But no, you have to use USB like they were concerned about some such thing as security or something.