NAS?

Posted by: ridds on 17 August 2011

 HI to all again, this is a vote i suppose, I am going to invest in a nas drive, western digital my bookworld 2tb,    or a ripnas?.  have about 16,000 tracks to uncompress from cd & vinyl.cheers hope i get a lot of votes so i can make a choice.   cheers M.

Posted on: 17 August 2011 by Wazza69

Probably dosen't mean much but Naim were using Netgear Duo NAS's at the event today. 

Posted on: 17 August 2011 by Stoik

I would get a Data Robotics Drobo FS (for management over Ethernet) or Drobo S (for direct connection to a PC or other managing device), and fill it full of Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB hard drives. Configure it in RAID 5 and enjoy.

 

Bye.

 

 

Posted on: 18 August 2011 by meissmar
I am using a QNAP 239p+. Very good, easy to handle and install, twonky included, lots of functions available. Just check out their Homepage. Don't know any other Nas drives, so can't compare. But I think QNAP is worth the money.
Posted on: 18 August 2011 by Guido Fawkes

Vortexbox - comes in all shapes a sizes and works with just about everything

Posted on: 18 August 2011 by Jack
How are you planning to access the files once ripped - UPnP or SMB file shares and with what device?

From a pure NAS perspective I would definitely recommend QNAP miles better that ReadyNAS IMO with lots of functions and nice interface. However, if you are planning on streaming with UPnP to say the NDX then I would look at Asset more closely and related options.
Posted on: 18 August 2011 by garyi
I wouldn't touch a drobo with yours.

QNAP should be added to the list though.
Posted on: 18 August 2011 by Tog
Vortexbox server every time. Tog
Posted on: 18 August 2011 by Steven Shaw

I really like the idea of Drobos, but reading a bit about them there seems to be quite a few failures.

 

I settled for a ReadyNas NV+, which is basically a 4 drive version of the duo. Works perfectly well at serving up Flac files to my unitiqute. Although I have Twonky installed since its a little bit more customizable than the inbuilt Upnp server, the built in server works ok (and intact seems more stable than Twonky which occasionally reboots itself whilst listening to music).

Posted on: 18 August 2011 by garyi
The trouble with drobo is they don't make a good nas and they shouldn't sell them as such. Dog slow and when i had one at least putting upnp on etc was very fussy.

Underpowered and i had two drives fail within 6 months. No access to the forum without ownership, propritory software with no user access to logs, etc, etc, etc.

So much better out there. Imo.
Posted on: 19 August 2011 by DQ

I would add AssetNAS to the list if you are a PC user.

 

I would take Western Digital off the list unless you plan to have a computer running to drive a UPNP server - I had big issues getting it to work and ended up with AssetNAS

Posted on: 19 August 2011 by Richard Dane

If, like me, you pretty much always have a laptop running in the house, then don't discount running an inexpensive storage drive or NAS and running Asset on the laptop.  It's a great way to start out before spending more serious money on a dedicated server.

Posted on: 19 August 2011 by likesmusic
Originally Posted by Richard Dane:

If, like me, you pretty much always have a laptop running in the house, then don't discount running an inexpensive storage drive or NAS and running Asset on the laptop.  It's a great way to start out before spending more serious money on a dedicated server.

And, if you are in the process of getting into digital stuff, in all probability you will be doing a lot of ripping, so you could run dBpoweramp on the same laptop. For the first hundred or two cds you can rip straight to your pc, which is nice and quick and fast to edit tags, and only buy more storage when you need it. You can also see whether you want to go down the UPnP road, or prefer a player like J RIver.