LMS on latest ReadyNAS products?

Shardstrat wrote:
Thanks. What I'm thinking of doing is keeping the Squeezebox Touch but installing LMS on the Wandboard instead of the NAS. I'm hoping that will improve the very slow performance of LMS on the NV+. Do you think it's worth a try?

No.

If you have an NV+ v1 (Sparc-based), the Wandboard will be faster... But I can't imagine LMS running even as slowly as you describe on a v1, so you probably have a v2. And I don't think even the top-of-the-line Wandboard Quad will be faster than the NV+ v2. The Wandboard Quad has 2GB of RAM and a more advanced ARM processor than the NV+ v2, but it also clocks that processor more slowly: 1GHz vs 1.6GHz. And the SATA interface on the Wandboard is undoubtedly slower than the RAID interface on the NV+.

But even if the Wandboard were twice as fast as the NV+, LMS with your large music library would still be annoyingly slow on it. For decent performance, you'll need an x86-based server. In my experience, LMS runs very well on a Pro 6 with an upgraded Core2 Duo Pentium CPU and 8GB of RAM, and it runs ok on an Ultra 2 Plus with the stock Atom D525 CPU and 2GB of RAM. It will undoubtedly run well on any of the new x86-based ReadyNAS devices (like the 516), too.

And if you don't want to replace your NAS, almost any PC built in the last decade will run LMS perfectly well, too. For less than the cost of the Wandboard, you can get on Craigslist and buy an old desktop that'll run circles around it.