A few points first. 1. Raid is not backup and shouldnt be considered as making it unnecessary. Raid is redundancy meaning that if a disk fails then you can replace it with no loss of data. Raid 1 uses 2 disks and the data is written to both (mirrored). 2 x 15tb disks would give you a total of about 13tb of usable space.
2. How much storage space do you really need? My 3500 albums ripped to FLAC takes up a little over 1TB so I imagine that your 5000 albums would be pushing 2TB in total. Do you really need that much storage? 3. Yes you can use HDs in USB caddies for backup purposes and yes any decent NAS has inbuilt tools to backup in such a way amongst others. 4. A NAS is designed primarily as a file storage system. As you say neither QNAP or Synology have official LMS installs any longer. There are third parties who have rebuilt LMS packages for both but there ongoing usability is not certain. Synology have said that support May he withdrawn. So. My 2p. 1. Get a NAS from either manufacturer but consider the storage requirement carefully. You can always upgrade the disks at a later stage. 2. Get yourself a Pi4. Install piCorePlayer and LMS on the Pi. Point it at the storage on the NAS. This is pretty much a future proof method of installing LMS as the Pi is cheap and can be easily replaced / rebuilt. Your files will remain safe and sound on the NAS. VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Pi3+Sreen -> Sony TAFE320 -> Celestion F10s / Pi2+DAC & SB3 -> Onkyo CRN755 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes *Dining Room* -> SB Boom *Kitchen* -> UE Radio (upgraded to SB Radio) *Bedroom (Bedside)* - Pi2+DAC ->ToppingTP21 ->AKG Headphones *Bedroom (TV)* - SB Touch ->Sherwood AVR ->Mordaunt Short M10s Everything controlled by iPeng ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d6jg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44051 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112670
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