Best way to share Itunes on network - WD My Cloud?

Hello,
I bought a WD My Cloud (NAS) hoping to use it to centralize my music and photos on my home network. I read a bunch of threads and decided to put my Itunes media folder on  the NAS. Getting all the files there was painfully slow. I am not sure if they got all copied at all. Accessing them was just as slow if it worked at all. Anyways, I gave up the idea, this was back in January. I now have more time and resetting my NAS to try this again. But before I embark on this adventure again, I wanted to know if this the best way. If not, what would be.
thanks,

I have no idea about speed.  The problem posts I have seen did not mention speed.  The main library file (iTunes Library.itl) itself is a relatively small file so speed will likely more be a factor of other traffic.
I can't say a specific factor is an issue with NAS, but I think it may have to do with communication and the fact that iTunes is not talking directly to the drive but instead to NAS software which then passes on the message with varying degrees of success.  I have no idea how Apple programs iTunes but probably they don't sit down and test it with every model NAS out there.  For all I know they may not even test it with any NAS since I don't think Apple sells NAS.  I wouldn't really expect them to test it against anything except what they sell and meeting general specifications.  Anyway, the fewer steps involved the better which is why you don't see the same problem reports I see with NAS from people who use simple external hard drives formatted to Mac.  That's not saying you can't get it to work with NAS but you're moving farther away from shore and into uncharted waters.

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