Hi, I noticed some pretty long saving time when saving a hip file on my NAS. Defenetly longer than file size would require.
I am not at all a specialist regarding network things.
I do not experience this with any other program, ( after effects , photoshop or others … )

Is there something special to configure for houdini ?

You can use buffered hip file saving by setting the environment variable HOUDINI_BUFFEREDSAVE to 1 (either in the shell, env variable dialog on Windows, or in the $HOME/houdiniX.Y/houdini.env file).

hip files have lots of small writes, and that's what's bogging down the NAS. Buffered saving assembles the hip in memory, then writes it sequentially. It uses more memory when saving, but should be much faster when writing to remote drives.