We should consider parallelizing the file downloads from external storage.
Benchmark
Here is a benchmark plotting showing the performance difference.
This is for princeton database, running on a computer in the lab. The external storage on a shared drive in the institute.
shenshan
commented
3 years ago 
Feature Request
Problem
Fetching from an internal blob field and from external blob fields have big difference in performance.
Same to this issue on the python site: https://github.com/datajoint/datajoint-python/issues/806
Requirements
We should consider parallelizing the file downloads from external storage.
Benchmark
Here is a benchmark plotting showing the performance difference. This is for princeton database, running on a computer in the lab. The external storage on a shared drive in the institute.