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To NAS or not to NAS
I am in the process of trying to work out a solution to an audio steaming problem. Currently I am using a PC running windows 7 on which over a TB of music in mainly Flac and Ape files are stored,...
chopinhauer wrote:
As for the NAS, still an option is all else doesn't work.
Ours is now essential. Our media, documents and backups are all consolidated onto the NAS (which is backed up to other NAS and to the cloud). Those files are available remotely when I travel on my laptop, my android phone and my iPad. I just replaced our aging family desktop PC with a small form-factor desktop that uses a modest SSD. We simply don't need a lot of storage in the PCs because everything is on the NAS.
So it could be worth the learning curve - but maybe it would be best to start in your new setup. Also, since Apple provides a relatively closed ecosystem it is a bit easier to fit the NAS into a PC environment.
cpu8088 wrote:
102 is entry level. slow cpu and inadequate ram
for good sound get a 212 or 312 plus 7200rpm hard drives for nas
To be sure the RN212 is a much more powerful NAS, but its more than what is needed for simple audio streaming. If you don't need server transcoding an RN102 is certainly enough. Audio streaming with flac requires about 1 mbit per second, and the RN102 does well over 400 mbits per second. There is no need for 7200 rpm for this application either. Price-wise an RN102 with two 3 TB WD30EFRX drives (raid-1) would run about $450. An RN212 with two 3 TB Wed Pro drives (7200 rpm) would cost about $675.
I think the bigger concern here is that the ex is computer illiterate. ReadyNAS do require some care and feeding, and someone who is not comfortable administering a Mac or PC is likely to run into trouble with any NAS. You probably shouldn't be the IT person for your ex (you don't use the NAS yourself, plus you are going your separate ways).
I'm not real keen on putting the music on an external drive connected to the router. Performance with the ASUS is probably good enough, but USB drives connected to routers generally don't spin down when not in use.
I'd first look at upgrading the disk drive of the "newish mac in the cupboard", and run LMS on that mac with no external disk.
streaming audio is not simple. u may go to many computer audiophile forum and see that there are many views about what hardware and software to use to achieve good sound
just like going from point a to point b u may drive a hyundai or toyota and it is incomparable from a fast ferrari or comfort of a bentley rolls royce
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