Best stand alone NAS for NDX

Somewhat sweeping statement about Twonky and the NDX.  The NDX I listened to in the store demo was fed from an Iomega NAS (£100 from PC world I think).  It worked absolutely fine.

That said I will be saving for an AssetNAS once I have my NDX; in the meantime I will stream from my laptop running Asset.

Cant comment on Wav files, but I have Twonky installed on a Readynas feeding Flac files to my unitiqute with no issues whatsoever.

I Rip using EAC and edit tags with mp3tag editor to fill in the album artist tag.

I think Naim are slightly behind at least one other British manufacturer in the streaming stakes, especially in providing information for integrating 3rd party products (e.g Nas) with their streamers. I'm sure the Unitiserve is a fine product, but given most folk will have a p.c, it is much cheaper to store rips on a NAS.

Vortexbox will work and to be fair Twonky on my QNAP was fine.

I think David was proposing to use the UServe as the server, not as the storage, is that right. And UServe does not store the downloads.

I'm using Qnap + twonky with my NDX and it works ok. Had to do a few "tweaks" to get the presentation of the order of the tracks right in the NDX but apart from that it works, even though I agree that there are better UPNP servers out there.

Thanks all for the great advice, one additional question on this

My ambition is to use the NDX in a second system. So all rips have been done with HDX etc and have their appropriate xml tags, has anyone found a media server that is NOT another Naim box that will "dish up" all of this information to the NDX?

Cheers

....if I understand right Vortexbox is not standalone, has to have a PC running, no?

It is of itself the PC DQ, so basically you would do away with the NAS.

I am not saying its the right solution, only that it is a solution.

For me QNAP and Twonky on the Qnap worked well, as did the itunes DAAP server on it.

AssetNas here, works fine, QNAP did not do it for me as Twonky and AIFF don't like each other. 

> Have a customer whose NDX/rNAS/Twonky package seems to be held back by his router.

Is the router doubling up as switch/hub or is your customer's NAS on a different network from his NDX. If you connect the NDX and NAS to a switch (HP make some nice ones) then you could almost eliminate the router from the set-up. You should only need to go through the router when accessing the Internet (e.g. during ripping to get song titles). The router is also giving out IP addresses so this could be a problem especially if some addresses have been set manually.

I tried to use Twonky, but I found it rather awkward so gave up and use the S/PDIF for connecting to my Naim set-ups. I wonder if it is Twonky rather than the router that is causing problems. 

I use a Juniper router and I've also used a Cisco router both are highly reliable. 

The Juniper is much easier to work with, but both are pretty good. 

All the best, Guy

Many thanks to all for great advice,

1. Following Gary's advice (and a few others) I deactivated UPnP on the NAS, and am running Asset UPnP off an old laptop. That gets the basic stuff working

2. I am ordering an Asset NAS from ripcaster - after a fair amount of diligence I am satisfied that is the best way to go. Twonky is troublesome to say the least and will never read HDX written metadata

3. I appreciate the suggestions to buy a unitiserve, but that does seem like a high cost route

4. I really like Guy's suggestion on the switch and am going to rewire the network so my switch is handling NDX and NAS and not the router. Great thought.

Thanks all for great advice. This forum is a terrific place for good advice.