Photoshop performance on NAS?

I am considering building a NAS and putting it on my home network so that I can store all of my work there and access it from both my PC and my Macbook Pro. I feel like this would be better than keeping everything on a thumb drive, but maybe it's not. Would keeping all of my files on the NAS instead of locally affect performance considerably? I don't want to be waiting 45 minutes for photoshop to open a PSD... If there is a better option I'd be very interested.
Thanks!
Kyle

@Noel Carboni
Yes, this is a configuration I have setup both at home and on a corporate network.
I looked at the link you provided and all I can say is that there is either a configuration or driver issue because I do not nor have I seen this problem.  That said, it is not like just slapping things together and everything will be great.   All consumer grade equipment is setup to be "good enough" but if you know what to tweak it is not an issue.  There is a lot of blaming Microsoft on that thread but I have found many times it is either a configuration issue, operator issue or 3rd party driver issue.  I am not trying to defend Microsoft this is just from my experience.  Not every router/switch is capable, nor are the built in network cards that are common on cheaper PCs.  There are the "specs" that are on paper and there are "real world" performance and some of the cheaper PCs do not match what the specs say.  Over at Dpreview.com there is a PC forum and many people have learned the good the bad and the ugly and know that not any $10 piece of computing equipment works.
I stream everything from HD 1080p video to large picture files on my network.  Many corporate websites and systems use image servers and must serve off gigabytes of images per hour especially news service sites so this is not exactly unusual.
If the Adobe products are not setup to handle very long delays, yes there can be a problem.
An alternative setup that I put together for someone in my photo club is a desktop machine with external Sata II ports.  A SATA II port can be just as fast as having an internal drive and when USB 3.0 is available it will be even faster.
For the machine I just setup I have the following config:
Windows 7 64 bit
C:\ -- 500gb 7200rpm -- OS and applications only
D:\ -- 500gb 7200rpm -- Adobe scratch drive, temporary files, lightroom catalog
E:\ -- External 2Tb 7200rpm -- primary image drive
F:\ -- External 2Tb 7200rpm -- backup image drive
N:\ -- NAS 2Tb RAID -- OS Image backup and file server for Microsoft office documents
I use Memeo backup for automated backups and syncing of folders
There are 2 additional eSATA ports available to further expand and this setup has the added benefit that the owner can take the backup drive to an offiste location when he goes on vacation or is away from home for extended period of times -- he uses a bank safety deposit box for that purpose.
I am not saying this is the best or only setup, this is just what I have setup and I know works for me.
I don't want to get into it, but you can make a laptop to perform just as good as a desktop, but you are not going to do it with $400 laptop....plan on spending $4000 and you can get a laptop where you can run photoshop have 1.4Tb of storage and with eSATA have external extra storage -- but at that point it is not exactly portable and defeats the purpose -- but it can be done.

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