Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] QNAP VS. synology VS. Ras.pi vs..p.c.
My listening habits are like Chris above: typically full albums. To the OPs question when this thread was started last year, I use a Synology 115j for both music storage and LMS. Its a low end, single bay NAS. Works great unless LMS is scanning the library, then everything slows to a crawl. With automated scanning at night, this isnt a concern of course. I would like to switch to something that will tell me when storage starts to go bad. Whether thats my single drive, or multiple drives, I dont think matters to me since Id have to envoke a backup. Actually, I suppose thats incorrect. A multi-drive RAID should alert me and permit replacing the drive in-place ... I know everyone says a RAID is never a backup, but if the system tells you to swap in a new drive, and you do it, youve essentially fixed and backed up the data, in a practical sense. Obviously, for the sake of that example Im ignoring a physical breach of the NAS, or the NAS hardware or its OS ruining the array somehow. Remember the old days, when all you had to worry about was fire or flood? deckeda's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106844 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] QNAP VS. synology VS. Ras.pi vs..p.c.
mrdo23 wrote: > hi there, > > sorry to hijack your thread but am i right in saying that you decided to > stick with your pc? do you have any idea how much power it consumes at > all? > > can anyone suggest which would be the most performant of these > solutions? i've tried migrating from my full PC setup with everything > running locally to a raspberry pi 3 and storage on an ancient readynas > duo v1. everything seems to work fine albeit slowly with the exception > of my favourite playlist which is approx. 6000 tracks. > > because of the way that lms handles playlists, the pi tries to load and > verify all 6000 tracks which it cannot currently handle at all. > > the massive spike in cpu load suggests that the ram is the bottleneck > rather than slow storage. > > would an upgrade to a newer nas help? the other option is to run lms > directly on something like the synology ds218play (i'm not sure i can > stretch to the 4 bay version) although this only has 1gig of ram like > the pi. > > thanks in advance! How are you accessing the NAS? I use a RasPi3, running LMS on piCorePlayer, and have my NAS set up as a mount. The only delay I have accessing my FLAC library is when I first access the library, as it takes a few seconds for the NAS to spin up from its WOL slumber. Beyond that it's very quick. That said, my listening habits tend to be play a full album to the end, then play another full album from start to finish. It's what I did with LPs when I was in my teens in the 1970s, and the habit persists. I don't have any playlists. Chris :) Stratmangler's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20387 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106844 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
