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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.
OK, thanks Stephen for your response. Very helpful and thorough.
I guess, I might dig out the iMac, install LMS and try to stream the music from there. If it works, then I might look into upping the HD in the iMac. All this will take a while so I won't be back on this thread until I do this.
The second option is to leave my PC with my ex, and get a new PC for myself. I've been wanting to upgrade for a while now so this could be the opportunity. But I doubt my ex will like this much as she hates the size of the 'black box' and all things PC in general (Mac adverstising did a great job in forming her perceptions).
As for the NAS, still an option is all else doesn't work.
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.
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