NAS setup if you had your time again...

Posted by: Mike Woodcock on 01 February 2016

Inspired by the FLAC 24/HiRes post - I am currently in the fortunate (or not so fortunate position) of re-ripping all my CDs into lossless versions (The days of expensive storage and max compression are a thing of the past). I've chosen FLAC because it supports tagging better and enables me to view compilations how I want to see them, BUT . . . for those of you who have been doing this for a number of years, if you had your time again, what (if anything) would you do differently to your file setup?

Posted on: 06 February 2016 by Huge

I'd have got a 2 bay NAS and dedicated one of the HDDs as an isolated system backup drive (currently I use an external USB drive plugged into the NAS for this).

My file layout, choice of media server and metadata (i.e. tagging) scheme would have remained the same. I would have chosen to store files as WAVE files (initially I used FLAC as a storage format, but I had some issues with transcoding so converted all the files to .wav).