Does anyone know if there's a major performance hit if you use a network storage device for your music?
I run LMS 7.9.0 on a Windows 2008 Server Virtual Machine, running on an ESXi host. My music is stored on a 4TB NTFS-formatted SATA drive. I've tried connecting this drive to the ESXi host machine in a couple of ways (e.g. internally connected directly to the SATA controller, and externally in a USB enclosure), and mapping it using RDM, but the VM environment doesn't handle it well at all - the disk always becomes corrupt after a relatively short period of time. Probably a hardware compatibility issue between the drive (a WD Blue) and ESXi. Or maybe the size of the drive is a problem for ESXi. Anyway I'm now thinking of transplanting the drive to my Linux file server in the loft, and pointing LMS at it from the Windows VM downstairs, but wanted to get feedback on whether this is a good idea before I embark on the whole process. Any views? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ itm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17437 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107853 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
