xebec59 wrote: > The disadvantage is that the HDDs contain directories which are tagged > and available and directories with music waiting to be tagged. > .... > 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
Moving files to a NAS won't automatically tag them, of course, so I'm not sure that I understand this issue about tagging. xebec59 wrote: > Amazon UK currently have a Synology DS220j with 2 x 14TB Seagate > Ironwolf drives for £705. Would this NAS be suitable? It's not what I would buy. The capacity/cost ratio seems best at the moment for 4 or 6 TB drives, and if you're going to configure your NAS as a RAID, you'll get better performance and reliability/availability from a larger number of smaller drives than from a few large drives. On Amazon in the USA, I see those 14TB Ironwolf drives for $430 each, and 4TB Ironwolfs for $105 each. So buying 28TB of storage would cost $860 with 14TB drives, but only $735 with 4TB drives. More importantly, the RAID1 pair of 14TB drives gives you only 14TB of usable storage and 1-drive redundancy, which works out to $61/TB. But seven 4TB drives in a RAID5 gives you 24TB of usable storage with the same 1-drive redundancy for half the price: $30/TB. Or if you wanted more reliability, RAID6 would provide 20TB of usable storage with 2-drive redundancy for around 60% of the price: $37/TB. xebec59 wrote: > 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? The NAS will perform its own scheduled backups, although of course you will have to initially configure those backups from a desktop/laptop. RAID itself is not a backup. It merely provides file availability: You won't have to lose access to your files while you're restoring a backup after a drive failure. So your idea of backing up to external HDDs is the right one. For more safety you can even backup over the internet to a remote NAS in a distant location. xebec59 wrote: > 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 What I have is a Netgear ReadyNAS (mine happens to be a very old model, but it's running the newest model's software) with six 4TB drives in RAID6, providing 16TB of usable storage with 2-drive redundancy. The ReadyNAS software is based on Debian Linux, so software packaged for Debian -- like LMS -- is trivially easy to install: You just SSH into the NAS (i.e., open a command-line console), type one command to download the software, and type another to install it. There might be other NAS hardware that's better for you, or more easily available in the UK. I haven't done any research lately, so I can't really recommend one over any others. But I've been very happy with my ReadyNAS boxes. *Touch* --> Benchmark DAC3 HGC --> Counterpoint NPS200 MkII + NPS400 --> Meadowlark Heron *Touch* --> Schiit Bifrost 2 --> Eddie Current Aficionado --> HD800 SDR, ZMF Verite Ziricote and a third *Touch* for remote control, and a *Radio*, and a couple *SB3*s and a *Transporter* somewhere ------------------------------------------------------------------------ fastfwd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62073 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112670
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