I don’t really need help here (but it didn’t seem another forum section was a better place for this). Rather looking for opinions…
Setting up a new Volumio 3 with music on a raspberry pi 4 running OMV. I have both NFS and SMB/CIFS configured. Which have YOU found to be more reliable and faster? Using a wired network.
My music library is 2172 artists, 5939 albums, 50320 songs. Even via local drive scanning, browsing artist or album could be (ahem) slow. So I’m looking to go with what a consensus here say is the fastest remote library connection method, assuming both connection types have the same reliability. But otoh, if performance is similar but one connection method is more reliable than the other, I’d opt for that instead.
A bit off-topic, but I have discovered that UI responsiveness and performance depends a lot on used browser. My music library is not as big as Yours, still I have found that browsing my music with Firefox is way faster and smoother than using Chromium. For me this is the case on desktop and smartphone. Volumio’s offical app is probably using system webview, Firefox on same phone runs much smoother, same goes to linux desktop.
If You only need to Linux/Unix based system to connect to NAS, then NFS is good choice.