I started a home music system in 2009 based on Squeezebox. I am still VERY happy with it.
Gradually my library has expanded to approx 12 TB of mainly FLAC files. Currently the music files are spread over six 3 TB hard drives that are housed in an Medisonic USB 3.0 hard drive enclosure: Mediasonic H82-SU3S2 ProBox 8 Bay 3.5" Hard Drive External Hard Drive Enclosure - USB 3.0 & eSATA https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005GYDMYG/ref=pe_385040_3033... It has been in service since 2013 and seems to have been a pretty good solution. I had to replace one early due to complete failure but it was under warranty. The hard drive enclosure is connected to a dedicated NUC computer which runs the Squeezebox server software and keeps the music indexed. HOWEVER, recently I notice hashes mismatches when transferring files to the discs. When I transfer files to the Mediasonic enclosure, I get the mismatches; when I transfer files to any other attached USB drive, there are no mismatches (I use Teracopy to verify the file transfers) I read in a couple of reviews that the problem with these units lies in its jmicron controller. So I have a few questions: 1. Should I just replace the obviously problematic unit? or, 2. Should I consider other options? Other options might be a NAS but I really want something faster such as my NUC because I use that computer as a Shoutcast server and as a Madsonic server which allows me to access my music outside of the house via phone apps or other computers. I doubt a NAS would be able to run all this software and give reasonable performance. I suppose I could build a computer with 6 drives but that would obviously be pretty expensive and not sure how many cases will hold 6-8 drives. Interesting to note that I have not had a drive failure in 3 years of continuous use. I use NAS drives and I back them up regularly to an external hard drive dock, one at a time. I'm not interested in other music streaming options than Squeezebox as I have a number of still functional Squeezebox players including a Touch, a couple of Booms, and a Radio. Additionally I have built several picoreplayers. Thanks for reading this and helping if you can. Jim http://zzzone.net http://have-a-nice-day.org http://www.last.fm/user/zzzoneDOTnet http://somethingsomethingsomething.net SBS 7.9 - i7 nuc - Win 10 64bit 5 Booms, 2 Radio, 3 Touch, 1 Duet, 5 piCorePlayers including 3 touchscreen, 1 Avy 2 controllers, various tablets/phones Apps including iPeng, Squeeze Ctrl etc. 'Library' (http://zzzone.net/photo/2009/music1.jpg): 397,000+ FLAC/MP3 files - 18 TB HD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jimzak's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17592 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109946 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
