>>One reason to use Mapped drives is that they are much faster to access for first time opening etc. Not sure why exactly but the performance difference is significant at least always has been for me. I suspect the reason is that Windows has to resolve UNC path every time they are used vs. just looking up a drive letter.
Windows 10 was said to have a mapped drive connection issue involving polling micro-outages that pushed people to use UNC paths. I tried to google it without success, so maybe it's resolved.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
