eduardoo wrote: > > A couple of questions for a real-life user: > 1. In your configuration, when you prompt something to play, do you > know if the files would go directly from the NAS to the switch to the > SB, or does it go to switch, to Pi, back to switch, then to SB? > > 2. Given that Pi has very little ram compared to an computer or NAS > (mine has 3GB), does it run well with large libraries (I have 120,457 > tracks amongst 11,665 albums and growing)? > > 3. Do you notice any performance difference in speed or audio quality > compared with running LMS on NAS? > > Thanks again. 1) Do did not want an explanation how TCP/IP works? Given the Fact that we talking about a LAN it doesnt matter that much how many hops a "play that track" needs.
2) Remember why your NAS has 3GB RAM and ask yourself how much of that ram is aviable for 3rd Party usage like LMS. 3) When i was younger and had two real slimdevices players i was so poor that my Home Lan was only 10 Mbit and Audio wasnt a issue since these old days. A 100 MBit Switch without A Fan simply wasnt aviable in these old Days. Your Lib is bigger than mine and i noticed a huge difference between my old Standalone LMS with an P Mobile and 4 GB Ram with my new I7 with 8GB Ram. WebGUI is increased - scantimes are decreased. But since my LMS has plenty of RAM i tested to run the cachefolder into a RAMDISK - didnt increase anything except the boot time was decreased (needs to copy the data into RAM before starting LMS) If i would run lms in my NAS? Nope If i would change my LMS to run as a NAS - yapp -> done that already. Raid and smb is the only thing you had to add to a standalone PC that already runs your LMS. Not a big deal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DJanGo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1516 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108207 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
