Using a network drive for back up

My Computer is running out of HD space but I have a 1TB drive hooked up to my network. Problem is, it is not the fastest to upload and download from well not as fast as a computer HD. Itunes does see my network drive but I'm scared that if I had all my music and video files on the network drive it would take hours to sync..If I set Itunes to access the network drive and copy all my files over, will my ipod with itunes have to access every file on the network drive everytime I sync to confirm with ipod.

I've moved the bulk of my library to an external hard drive and as far as I can tell it's only being accessed while files are being copied to the iPod or when you select a file in the browser and iTunes reads the tag to check it's information is up-to-date. Try moving a couple of albums out to the network drive & see if you can play them in iTunes. Test some videos too. If they play OK then you shouldn't have any problems. Just take extra care when deleting though - as there's usually no recycle bin over the network.
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