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Originally Posted by JSWolf
That's because most are trying to use a NAS drive. This is just a regular hard drive.
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I confess to confusion. What exactly do you mean by "NAS drive"? Every NAS device I have ever seen uses bog-standard drives, all SATA in the last several years.
A networked drive is any drive that a) one accesses that is plugged into a computer other than the one I am now using and b) that other computer is visible to mine over a network of some kind. The other computer could be a NAS device, a "cloud drive", another PC of the same type as the one in front of you, or computer of a different type/OS/what-have-you. If your library is on a networked drive then calibre may or may not work. It may work for a long time then stop working, perhaps eating your library. It may work as long as you don't do operation X. It may look like it is working but not be, quietly tossing your books into a bit bucket.
I am glad that whatever you are doing works for you. However, do not generalize that into working for everyone. We have a *lot* of experience with calibre failing when using networked drives, sometimes catastrophically.