I don´t quite understand some of the negative comments regarding the usage of a NAS to run the Squeezebox server. Let me tell you my setup and experience.
I have got a Synology DS716+ with 2 4GB Toshiba drives. I have upgraded the ram to 8GB which is not officially supported by Synology but works like a charm. On the Diskstation I am running Squeezeserver, Surveillance Station with 2 cameras, Photostation (managing 1000s of photos), Videostation, a VPN server and a lot of additional small apps. My Squeezeserver is hosting about 35.000 MP3s which I am streaming to ~4 Squeezeboxes (Radio, Boom, Squeezelite as service on a PC and laptop, several Android clients). And let me tell you what: it runs like a charm. There are no hiccups, no delays and certainly no problems. Just the other night I upgraded to the Beta 7.9.1 version and this one is also running without any issues. So from that end I really cannot understand OR confirm any of the negative reactions regarding running the server on a NAS. Maybe other models have problems and I cannot comment on that. I would look it at from various angles. What do you want to achieve? If it is ONLY streaming music then any solution with a USB disk and a Raspberry Pi might be better/equal and obviously much cheaper. If you are data paranoid as I am, then you would probably want to some kind of insurance that your files won´t disappear when one of the hard drives crashes. When I was still using another brand that had happened to me a couple of times but since I switched to Toshiba everything is stable. In any case I am making an external backup every night. But even before, the RAID functionality of the Diskstation ensured that nothing was lost. If you want to run some additional stuff then a NAS is the perfect solution, in my opinion. Maybe different models behave VERY differently so that might be a thing to check upfront. If you go with the DS 716+ I would be surprised if you run in any trouble. Hope this helps a bit. Cheers Merc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mercenary's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48563 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108355
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