saxon wrote: > OK I run a number of Squeezebox devices in my home and currently have an > original Netgear Readynas which has been superb - unbelievably stable > and reliable and currently runs 2x 2tb drives in it. > > We use the server for photos, films and all sorts of other stuff as well > as all my ripped flac music. > > We're running out of storage on the server and this readynas cannot use > drives larger than 2TB apparently. > > I'm thinking of buying another NAS drive and am tempted to stick with > Netgear - maybe a 212 or even 214 to give greater future proofing of > capacity - I do some professional photography, models etc and so have a > lot of photos to store. > > I'm also open to changing brand though - perhaps Synology if people > think they are significantly better. > > It seems that running squeezebox server on some of the more recent NAS > drives can be problematic with installs and configuration so can anybody > recommend which to buy? > > I guess another option might be to buy a second NAS drive and use the > new one for photos and films and keep my existing readynas just for > music. If I was able to move all the movies and photos from the old NAS > then it's 2x 2TB drives would be more than big enough for all my future > FLAC/Squeezebox requirements and as I say it seems to be a robust little > unit actually. > > I'd welcome thoughts from any experts! > > Saxon
I'm not really in a position to recommend a NAS, as I only have experience of a QNAP (though it's been pretty much trouble free). However running LMS on the QNAP was a bit of a hassle, and some time back I went down the route of running LMS on a Raspberry Pi 3 (using piCorePlayer), pointing it at the music files held on the QNAP. This is an excellent setup and I recommend it. Robert *Home: *Raspberry Pi 3/piCoreplayer/LMS7.9 with files on QNAP TS-239 Touch > DacMagic 100 > Naim Audio Nait 3 > Mission 752 (plus Rega Planar 3 and Naim CD3) PiCorePlayer(Pi2) with touchscreen and IQAudIO DAC+>Sennheisers 2 x Squeezebox Radios, 1 X Squeezebox 3 (retired) *Office:* LMS7.9 running on WiFi MyPassport drive > piCorePlayer(PiB)/HiFiBerryDAC > Amptastic Amplifier SqueezePad, iPeng as controllers last.fm/user/GrumpyBob ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Grumpy Bob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41857 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107979 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
