I have LMS running on a 10 year old QNAP NAS, the TS-219P+. It's an ARM based processor NAS. There is a grace in running LMS on your NAS. I would say if you want to go this route, definitely get an x86 processer NAS and not an ARM based. This will allow you to install LMS from a package that you can find here in the forums. Plus if you use MusicIP / Spicefly, that will be a ton easier.. actually everything will actually be easier. If you do get an ARM based processor, other then the install, you'll have to manually install the SSL socket and getting MusicIP to work is a challenge as well.
In regards to your NAS, I think the question you have to ask yourself is why are you purchasing a NAS? I have a two drive NAS and use mirroring, so it's Raid 1. My next NAS will be a 4 bay so I can do Raid 1+0 (mirroring and striping) -- that might be overkill as now a days as there's enough free cloud storage to backup everything on your NAS to the Cloud (so I have two redundancies), but it's nice to have a fast local system. Once of my drives went bad a year ago and I was really impressed that all I had to do was eject the old drive, insert the new drive and the NAS did everything else with no intervention my me -- what it's supposed to do. It was ridiculously simple. I use my NAS as a central place for my family to store documents and media, LMS and for security camera video feed storage. I really don't use much of the applications that QNAP has other than a weekly virus scan and a weekly sync to my cloud storage. Then when I am not home, I just grab what I need from the cloud storage. But I can tell you that QNAP has a ridiculous number of media, utility and tools applications and their support is stellar. >From a power use perspective and ease of use, even though I haven't tried it (yet), I agree with others here to use a raspberry pi. Another idea is that if you have an old laptop laying around that's not too too old, use that. if you're not a Linux guy, that might be easiest. good luck and let us know what you end up with. LMS 7.9.1 on QNAP 219P+ 3 wired Touch End Points Jolida Tube DAC III Marantz 2270 to Boston Acoustics Slimlines Marantz 7010 to B&W CM10 S2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dhallag's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109236 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
