Resolution wrote: > I've been storing my music files in apple lossless format on a mac mini > which is nearly maxed out in hard disk capacity and other hardware > aspects such it is hardly able to boot up and play music. time to change > things around. my thought is to upgrade my MacBook pro to one with a > larger hard disk and have just one computer instead of 2 to deal with > and store everything and run LMS from there. but then i thought maybe > there is a better solution that folks here could point me towards.
I was running LMS on a Windows machine with a 2TB hard drive, and my library consumed maybe 800GB of that. But, I needed another external HDD to back up my win machine. I also got tired of "why did the music stop? Oh, I turned off the computer" :p, so I built a picore player as a LMS server only, and attached a 2TB HDD to it. Now, My LMS server is standalone, win/mac computer independent for about $50USD for the Pi, $50USD for the HDD. Then, to make things even better, I use SAMBA to link the Picore HDD as a network drive, and backup my non music files (e.g. photos, etc) on the windows machine -> Picore HDD, and the music files picore -> Win HDD. I use freefile sync as a manual backup/mirror, but there are a number of ways to transfer/mirror. It may not be relevant for you but I have two similar systems at two locations miles apart, so I also have a "travel HDD" I carry to sync both locations. So, I have an on sight backup, an offsite backup, and a travel HDD backup of all my files. Not on purpose, but I do have redundancy :) YMMV, but I thought I would let you know what I learned from others and did when I decided to separate LMS from my computer Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Redrum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112897 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
