Media library root folder outside of CMS

Hi,we are in a process of moving all media library files to external storage. The issue we are facing is that when we point to external storage in Content-@Media-@Media libraries folder setting (e.g. e:/Library) we loose direct path access (e.g. ~/DancingGoat/media/CoffeeGallery/mug.jpg). The only way we can access it is by permanent link using GUID (e.g. /getmedia/df618225-62ac-4876-94bb-be75eae732fc/mug.jpg). Is there some other setting we could utilize? I was also thinking about adding virtual directory in IIS.Any ideas?ThanksPeter