Hi xebec59 Welcome to posting on this forum.
>Essentially nearly 5000 CDs ripped plus later purchases. It sounds like a lot ... like you'll need maybe 4 TB of disk space. At Archimago's Musings he investigated what people actually have: http://archimago.blogspot.com/2020/06/musingspoll-lifetime-of-digital-audio.html (Direct link: https://www.poll-maker.com/results2961795x58875a24-87#tab-2 ) Results (trend): 46% has less than 1 TB of actual music in their library. 64% has less than 2 TB 82% has less than 4 TB >Amazon UK currently have a Synology DS220j with 2 x 14TB Seagate Ironwolf drives for £705. Would this NAS be suitable? Absolutely, yes. >the LMS packages are now "unofficial" - How much of an issue is that? Personally this is discouraging me from buying another Synology NAS - I've purchased several since my first in 2008 - but I might still buy Synology ... then it will only be for the file management. The direction I am considering is, as also proposed by others here in this thread, to consider a Raspberry Pi, which runs the LMS (with piCorePlayer configured not as a player, but running entirely as a server). This can either pick files from the NAS or (more likely) I'll connect a disk directly to the RPi-LMS server and only say 'mirror' it on the NAS. The NAS in my world may as well be powered off most of the time unless I find other reasons to keep it on. Cheers, Claus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cfuttrup's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32784 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112670
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