New Synology NAS

I still use a 213j and it trundles along happily, serving up music via Minim. Assuming the 215j is simply this year's version of the 213j, it will be fine with the NDS. Install Minim, set it to convert to WAV and you'll be off.  

Not sure why you think that 215J has better specs -- the processor in the 214 is faster and more powerful (quad core).  That seems to be the significant difference -- the 214 has much more CPU power.

But for serving music the J should be "good enough." 

The 215J is a nice white colour and while not looking exactly in place in a domestic environment, it doesn't look too out of place. But at the end of the day I bought that because I could get it with two WD Red 3 TB drives already fitted for a reasonably good price.....

i'm just using it for backup, so the performance was not a major consideration.

best

David

Depends on the decor, n'est pas?

That is a fair point I agree.  Just shows my prejudice for things that look clean and bright and non-technical.  Although the flashing blue lights are hard to ignore, they do make a change from the flashing green lights on the Netgear switches all around the house.

Ahh ... yeh but ....

my 214 is matt black & it has mellow yellow & leaf glade green flashing lights,  but flashing anything is a big NO-NO in my living rooms & it lives in a closed door cabinet.    

Mike, I agree.  In my living room (you Brits say "parlour"), I have no flashing lights and the hi fi rack is all Naim black boxes on Fraim.  This provides a tranquil setting to listen to music, free of flashing lights and whirring hard drives.  I spent a few hundred dollars (you Brits say "quid"   ) running ethernet cable in the walls so that I could re-locate the nas and UnitiServe and switch, etc., to a far-away room.

In that far-away room, looks matter much less.  A white nas is fine with me.

They may have said parlour in 1910, but we say sitting room or living room. Some people also say lounge, but that is a more downmarket term. 

Well I have my NAS in my study so its white case and blue lights don't intrude on the listening experience in my sitting room. I think my great grandmother may have had a parlour possibly but definitely no digital audio in those days, or even audio come to that!

I think that parlours were a room where the dead family members were laid out for viewing in the old days. In the early 20th century they were renamed "living rooms" to decrease the connotation with death. I kid you not.

+1, I do believe my nan had a parlour, it was a second living room with all the posh furniture in that no one ever used. Not a word I've ever heard anyone under the age of 70 use though apart from Ray Parlour who I think was a footballer 

According to my dictionary, one meaning of "parlor" (parlour) is " a room in a monastery or convent set aside for conversation."  Make sense--derived from French "parler," etc.

Yes, makes sense, whenever we went into my nan's we used to have a conversation about why she had a parlour

Living room - room - a singular room to live in - oh how common.

I said living rooms sir,  I have rooms for dinning, withdrawing, study & all manner of social & domestic functions.

In polite circles, parlour is a room for receiving guests, however thanks to the riff raff in the western colonies it carries an innuendo of public houses & places of entertainment  .........  I believe the colonials call them  bordello's   ........... 

My aunt and uncle had the same thing - a posh room that nobody ever went in. They had a tiny house so it wasn't the best use of space.

Ray Parlour was indeed a footballer - ooh ah Ray Parlour!

Two peoples separated by a common language, as George Bernard Shaw apparently didn't actually say, but joined by a common Naim maybe....

I suspect they call them bordellos, but certainly not bordello's, unless they are colonial grocers. 

I thought you'd appreciate that!