paulster wrote: > For LMS on NAS I'd recommend WD Red drives in a RAID 5 configuration. > The drives are quiet (way, way quieter than the Seagates I made the > mistake of trying a few years ago), low power, and plenty fast enough > for heavyweight music and HD video streaming. Plus RAID 5 gives you > great read performance. If you were doing heavy writes then I'd go for > RAID 0+1, but for most things read-related RAID 5 is great. And when > you inevitably lose a drive you'll still be protected with no data > loss. > > I use an SSD for my LMS database and I can scan 20,000 tracks for > updates in less than 30s on a Celeron-powered LMS server with a gigabit > connection to the NAS. > > And I like Synology for the NAS devices themselves.
That's pretty much exactly as I have it except I haven't (at this stage) opted for an SSD drive in my Vortexbox LMS which is an old Dell Poweredge Server with a Celeron 3.33Ghz (single core) processor and 4gb RAM. The music remains on my QNAP 4bay NAS (Raid 5) which is mounted on the Vortexbox LMS via NFS rather than Samba. The scan time (15,000 tracks) is 35 seconds. I don't see any need to improve on that at present. I run 4 Squeezeboxes and a couple of software players concurrently with no issue. I chose to install Vortexbox as I was in need of re-ripping a high number of CDs - stupidly chose 320Kbps MP3 as my standard some years ago when I only had a single drive QNAP. I did have LMS running on the 4bay QNAP itself until fairly recently and the scan time was more than double the existing arrangement. It did however cope with the same number of devices OK. All of the kit is in a proper rack away from prying eyes and fingers so noise and power issues are dealt with. *Vortexbox LMS 7.8 music on QNAP TS419p via NFS* - iThingys/iPeng/Tablets *Living Room* - SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 connected Digitally - > Celestion Ditton F20s - and connected Analogue for Zone 2 -> Sony TA FE 320 -> Sennheiser RS 130 *Office* - SB3 -> Sony TA FE320 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes *Dining Room* -> SB Boom *Kitchen* -> UE Radio (upgraded to SB Radio) *Bedroom (Bedside)* - SB Touch -> Topping TP21 -> AKG Headphones *Bedroom (TV)* - Amazon Fire TV (SB Player) -> Topping TP20 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d6jg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44051 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103359 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
