chill wrote: > I'm not really sure what is best, to be honest. My USB disk is a fast, > silent, locally attached SSD, and I'm obviously wearing it out a bit > faster than if it was a read-only music store, but I don't think that's > much of an issue these days. It gets backed up every night, so the risk > of loss caused by corruption is minimised. And of course, it removes > the risk of corruption to the SD card. I can't say I've noticed any > speed difference wherever the cache is stored. Saved space on the SD > card isn't an issue either these days, given that the cheapest SD cards > seem to be 16Gb.
I too have my LMS cache on the same SSD as my music. It's very quick (USB3 on a Pi4) and easy (for me) to backup the cache from Windows using Samba. If the SD card in the Pi gets corrupted, just burn a new one, set up a few bits and bobs, point it at the LMS cache on the SSD and you're away playing again from the same playlist where it left off. :cool: *Server - LMS 8.0.0 *Pi4B 4GB/Flirc case/pCP 6.0.0-rc1 18K library, playlists & LMS cache on SSD (ntfs) *Study -* Pi3B+/pCP 5.0.0/pi screen/HiFiBerry DAC+/jivelite, *Lounge* - Pi2/pCP 5.0.0 > HiFiBerry DIGI+ > AudioEngine DAC1 > AVI DM5 *Dining Room* - Squeezebox Boom *Garage* - Pi3B/Pi screen/HiFiBerry DAC+/pCP 5.0.0 > Edifier R980T *Spares* - 2xTouch, 1xSB3, 1xRadio, 6xRPi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kidstypike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10436 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110727 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
