Good evening I have been lurking here for many years but have registered now in order to seek some advice
My current set up is 2 x 8TB external HDDs attached to my Windows 10 desktop PC. LMS points to one tagged directory on each of the HDDs. I then use a Squeezebox Touch connected to the music system. Control is usually using Ipeng on my Ipad. I also have a laptop on the network which can access the HDDs. The disadvantage is that the HDDs contain directories which are tagged and available and directories with music waiting to be tagged. I also have a Vortexbox (3 TB) although that seems to have a power issue but when it worked the contents were integrated into the database. One of the HDDs contains classical music; the other "popular" music. Essentially nearly 5000 CDs ripped plus later purchases. While this usually works well it can sometimes be hit and miss and I was considering using a NAS instead which would make available items which are correctly tagged and would operate independently from the desktop. I think the Vortexbox is regarded as a NAS so I have that generally positive experience but am wondering what factors I should be considering. I would like to still be able to use the LMS software, partly because its what I am used to and it appears to work well. I use a number of the third party apps and like the fact that it recognises multiple tags e.g. 2 genres can be shown for one piece of music and it will appear under both. What should I be looking for as a minimum specification? Amazon UK currently have a Synology DS220j with 2 x 12TB Seagate Ironwolf drives for £850. Would this NAS be suitable? QNAP and Synology if I understand other forum entries correctly had their own LMS packages but have discontinued them - the LMS packages are now "unofficial" - How much of an issue is that? I currently backup to similar sized HDDs. NAS drives again from my limited understanding can automate backing up across the drives with RAID 1 producing a mirror image and RAID5 doing something more subtle across all the drives. My preference I think would be to back up to external HDDs - is that possible? If yes, is that controlled from within the NAS or from a desktop/laptop? I would be hoping to match or improve on my current experience but dont really want to invest in something which is going to obsolete or need a lot of tweaking Thank you for any thoughts or advice David ------------------------------------------------------------------------ xebec59's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112670
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