Slow menus with mapped network drive

[Loopey]

I have about 2.5 TB of TV shows that I access via a mapped network drive. In total, there are 103 different shows in the TV folder. When I try to open the "My TV Shows", it takes 10-45 seconds before it displays anything, even after everything has been indexed. The pause happens every time "My TV Shows" screen loads, even if I go into a show folder and then try to back out. Is there something I can do to fix this?

System Specs:

AMD Phenom II x2 3.19Ghz
2.0 GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 210
Windows 7 x64

It's connected to the network via Gigabit Ethernet. The server is a dedicated Ubuntu server with 8 GB RAM, AMD x4 2.6 GHz, and Gigabit Ethernet. I have no delays at all accessing the server using Windows Explorer.

Thanks

[Swiper_the_Fox]

It's most likely that physical harddrive is going into sleep mode to save energy and its taking that time to wake itself up again.

I found a program that will keep your harddrive awake all the time
its called NO SLEEP HDD and you can find it at http://nosleephd.codeplex.com/


free and works great for me

note, this program has to be installed on the computer the drive is connected to
as it will not write to mapped drive

[klewis2000]

I've been experiencing the same problem for a long time, and no, it's not related to hard drive spin down. I think in both cases, it has to do with our mapped network shares. Anyone else out there have a similar setup?