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I'm thinking about using your ReadyNAS214 to host my iTunes library which currently has approx 800Gbs of data (AIFF encoded files) with cover art pulled in by iTunes automatically and manually installed as well as Time Machine backups for my macs at home.
I have two questions:
1. Does Netgear require third-party software like "iTunes Server" for accessing the iTunes media folder from the NAS214 and if so, will your version allow cover art to display that's either automatically downloaded from the iTunes store or manually inserted by me?
2. Would it be possible (and recommended) to create two RAID 0 partitions spanning two drives each - one for my iTunes library and one for my TM backups on the NAS 214?
thanks!
BDA
@blackdogaudio wrote:1. Does Netgear require third-party software like "iTunes Server" for accessing the iTunes media folder from the NAS214 and if so, will your version allow cover art to display that's either automatically downloaded from the iTunes store or manually inserted by me?
ReadyNAS does come with an iTunes server, but, you need to be careful here. It's not the same as Home Sharing like the desktop iTunes, instead it is a basic audio server support Apple's DAAP protocol - it can stream to iTunes running on a desktop, but it cannot stream to iDevices.
You can read more in the Netgear kb article here.
2. Would it be possible (and recommended) to create two RAID 0 partitions spanning two drives each - one for my iTunes library and one for my TM backups on the NAS 214?
Not sure why you'd do that, rather than have one volume (and with RAID protection)?
aks wrote:
@blackdogaudio wrote:1. Does Netgear require third-party software like "iTunes Server" for accessing the iTunes media folder from the NAS214 and if so, will your version allow cover art to display that's either automatically downloaded from the iTunes store or manually inserted by me?
ReadyNAS does come with an iTunes server, but, you need to be careful here. It's not the same as Home Sharing like the desktop iTunes, instead it is a basic audio server support Apple's DAAP protocol - it can stream to iTunes running on a desktop, but it cannot stream to iDevices.
You can read more in the Netgear kb article here.
2. Would it be possible (and recommended) to create two RAID 0 partitions spanning two drives each - one for my iTunes library and one for my TM backups on the NAS 214?
Not sure why you'd do that, rather than have one volume (and with RAID protection)?
Tony,
First, thanks for the reply and link.
It's a shame it doesn't talk to iDevices but that's not a deal breaker as I'll mostly stream from my macs though possibly a Devialet Phantom system in the future. I'll speak with Devialet and see if they've got any expereince with ReadyNas storage systems however.
My other concern was with iTunes cover art. I demoed a friend's Synology NAS that was up for sale and it couldn't retain some cover art whether downloaded automatically by iTunes or manually installed by the user. Completely hit or miss but definitley a deal breaker with a large library where a visual search is better that weeding through thousands of album tiltles in text form. Evidentely it's a known issue with their third-party verrsion of "ITunes server" software.
My bad, I meant RAID 1 not RAID 0. My thoughts were to configure the four drives into two volumes with Raid 1. This would give me a disk mirror for my iTunes media folder and a separate one for TM backups.
regards,
Dave
@blackdogaudio wrote:
I'm thinking about using your ReadyNAS214 to host my iTunes library which currently has approx 800Gbs of data (AIFF encoded files) with cover art pulled in by iTunes automatically and manually installed as well as Time Machine backups for my macs at home.
I have two questions:
1. We use forked-daapd for our iTunes Server. Some users prefer to leave iTunes running on their PC and use their PC as the server but store for the library for it on the NAS.
2. That's possible but not recommended. If either disk failed used by the RAID-0 volume all data on the volume would be lost. It'd be better to use a RAID level providing some redundancy e.g. the default X-RAID. The most likely hardware to fail is generally a disk.
