elvis;638477 Wrote: > Thanks pablolie for honest confession about responsiveness, which also > scares me ... > > I am planning to buy QNAP TS-212 for SBS aplication (and also for raid > 1 photo backup). Anyone has this device and can confirm that it works > fine with squeezebox touch without annoying delays ? > > Thanks, elvis
Like I mentioned earlier, I have the QNAP TS-110, and it is pretty good, although I would say it is "barely" powerful enough to do the job, so I would think the TS-212 is going to be fine. The instructions to install the SSOTS and Squeezebox Server onto the NAS are on the QNAP site. I know nothing about Linux and was pretty scared about the whole process. I worked slowly and carefully, reading the instructions several times and trying to follow them verbatum. There was a couple of times when things did not go exactly as the instructions said they should, but it was close enough that I was able to muddle through. Once it was installed, it has worked pretty much flawlessly. Even when I experience a power outage at the house, it restarts itself and never even know anything went wrong. I did have one time when I could not access the SSOTS and SB server from my desktop, but rebooting the NAS fixed that. Pretty good stability all in all. It seems pretty responsive. The only time I notice any delay, is when it has not been used in a long time. It must go to "sleep" or something. Then when I try to browse to a music file from the Touch, it takes two or three seconds to respond at first. After that, it seems plenty fast, although I do not have a huge music library. I do not use the NAS as a RAID or automatic backup or anything, even though I'm sure I could. The problem with that approach is that if a file gets corrupted, and you automatically back it up, then you have a corrupted backup. So you need to make sure what you back up is good. Just doing a blind backup of all your files may just ensure that you've got two copies of crap. But I do all my ripping on my desktop, and then copy the files over to the NAS. So that means I have two good copies of my music files. Terry -- TerryS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TerryS's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88501 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
