hal9000;275779 Wrote: > Thanks guys. I'll check out my log and see if there are issues there. > The PC I'm running the server on is a buffed out XPS gaming machine > from last year so that's not the problem...its probably the NAS or a > network issue.
Sounds like your PC is fine. The slow part is your NAS. That type of NAS was not made to deal with 4TB of FLAC files during scanning. Just think of how long it would have taken with SL 6.5.4. The hard part is over, the scan. It should do all right playing the FLAC music files. Just because a certain NAS has enough capacity, does not necessarily make it the correct NAS for Squeezebox file sharing no matter how powerful the PC running SqueezeCenter is. And it is a sure thing not to use it as the actual SC server. I just finished installing SqueezeCenter on my DIY NAS. The rescan took almost 4 hours to do just under 12,000 CDs (still have 4000 to rip to FLAC) spanned over 6TB of hard drive space. The NAS has a 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 with 4 GB of RAM and an LSI Logic SATA 150-6 RAID Card so it can stand along as the SqueezeCenter server. My NAS has a huge amount of horsepower. The reasons are two fold. I have an abnormally huge CD library and I want my NAS to host SqueezeCenter on its own. Large FLAC libraries have to have an extremely powerful NAS if they are going to also run as the Server (unless time is not important to you). Large libraries require a powerful NAS when used for storage only to handle maintenance/scanning while ending up having excess power when just playing the music files. What was commercially available (other then rack mounted huge things, read very expensive) just would not handle my collection so I went with the DIY NAS. Not including drives, I stayed under $600 if purchased new (spent less because I had stuff in the closet). -- iPhone iPhone Last.FM http://www.lastfm.com/user/mePhone Media Room: Transporter, Vandersteen Quatro Signature, Ayre MX-R Mono Blocks, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, VCC-5 Reference Center Channel, four VSM-1 Signatures, Runco 710, RAM Oppo DV970HD, VeraStarr 6.4SE Living Room: Squeezebox 3, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold Bedroom: Squeezebox 3, Thiel 2.3, NAD C370 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44250 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
