pwengland;610925 Wrote: > I am the owner of 2 older Squeezebox's and am thinking of buying 1 new > SB touch very much for the same reasons as Jean, I.e. Not wanting to > leave PCs or NAS running in the house. >
I now have two SB, the Touch with HDD and the Radio. When only the Radio is playing, it's great. If both are playing, you feel things becoming more slugish. And I've never managed to make them sync without drop-out. The hard drive is not very fast, and having to feed multiple SB force it to seek in various places constantly, which reduce performance. Don't expect miracles with multiple SB streaming from the Touch. pwengland;610925 Wrote: > The only thing I was wondering is whether a powered USB enclosure maybe > a better call in the long term. > > I appreciate it means one more adaptor in the wall, and maybe a touch > more power use, but I have been through 2 standard power adaptors on my > old SB's and just wonder whether SB Touch adaptor and circuitry is up to > powering a USB drive in the longer term. > > Any views ? My setup has gone over 10 months without any issues. I personally would think that the most damaging to the power supply would be surge and spikes on the mains, rather than the relatively minor load of the drive. The problem you had with your power adaptors was clearly not related to any HDD. A separate enclosure would enable you to put a higher performance drive (7200 rpm), but I'm not sure if that would make a difference. Jean -- jean2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jean2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33946 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82070 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
