I still feel a well configured NAS and home network should be able to support farming the plots it hosts from another machine on the LAN.
I agree. That is what I am doing and I don’t have any issues. But I do have two networks setup to separate the plotting traffic from the farming traffic. That is a huge factor.
I just rate limit the copying of new plots to the NAS (using robocopy’s /IPG). It causes 0 problems that way. The NAS’s primary task is still scheduling and receiving the backups from the network. If that happens to make me loose some responses (have not really seen a missed time yet, even when backups are rolling in but probably that is because the farmer and NAS are on the same switch whereas the rest of the traffic sadly has to be funneled through a slower linkup).
Are you using Chiadog?
Something similar, in Powershell