just to let you know what happened, i got the duet, and the slimserver
works very well on the synology NAS
it's a bit slow in the web interface, but with the remote is great, and
synology now have a package for this that is s easy to install...
it is about 1 or 2 minor versions behind the
musicexpression;414227 Wrote:
i would say it's a calculated risk u need to take when trying our a NAS
server for use with the SC.
stick to those commonly-used brands of NAS, and you should be pretty
safe if u followed their helpful instructions exactly.
I did that when I bought my LSL
iPhone;414229 Wrote:
It is also my personal opinion that one is better off running SC on a
purpose build server then on an NAS.
Many people have this opinion, however i believe there are a LOT of
people out there like me who want PC-less music. having the fan noise
etc of a PC (even if in a
I couldn't agree with you more. This is why we built the VortexBox
appliance to save people time getting a NAS working. The VortexBox
appliance is a prebuilt Linux server, quiet, low cost, draws 24 watts
when fully running. Oh and it auto rips CDs to the disk as well.
Hopefully we have built what
i would say it's a calculated risk u need to take when trying our a NAS
server for use with the SC.
stick to those commonly-used brands of NAS, and you should be pretty
safe if u followed their helpful instructions exactly.
I did that when I bought my LSL last week. My SB3 was working perfectly
wcndave;413507 Wrote:
I am concerned about the NAS (and reason i would buy a seperate box if
there was one) because of performance, ie my NAS only has 128M RAM and
i use it for many other things, including streaming HD movies.
The biggest issue I see is that SC requires a minimum of 256MB of
wcndave;413507 Wrote:
So what i would like to do is install squeezecenter and then see how it
works / performs. Is there any way to test this BEFORE i buy the duet.
I understand i cannot test wifi etc, however can i test that the SC is
working, and performing ok using a desktop app of
