Nas

Most people on here recommend Synology or QNAP.

Synology either with it's built in Media Server (very simple but still works reliably) or with MinimServer (more flexible but also more complicated to set up)

QNAP with Asset (as flexible as Minim, however, more complicated than Synolology but less complicated than Minim)

The WD My Cloud drives are awful. Get a Qnap or Synology.

Or a cheap ReadyNAS 102 - work a dream with Naim and have inbuilt DLNA/UPnP media player - simple but effective - and sounds good too. (though can't transcode)

I have had my current ReadyNAS  and its predecessor for many years and they have not let me down once - they just work.

Sometimes less is more.... 

I bought a Cloud Mirror while back and had the devil of a job getting it to work. Phil Harris at Naim told me to get shot of it PDQ. I now have a QNAP 253a with a pair of 2T WD Red drives. I also run a Netgear ReadNAS104 in another location in the house. Both run in RAID configuration and work reliably although I must confess the Phil took control of my network one evening to sort a few glitches��

We get so many problems reported with the version of Twonky that WD use on their NASs - the main one being that they seem to spontaneously start to duplicate portions of the music library multiple times (fixed by getting the UPnP server to do a rescan) - so personally I would suggest going for something else.

Phil

thanks

A WD NAS is however fine for backing-up purposes. I use several for that purpose but, not for actually serving the music.

blythe posted:

A WD NAS is however fine for backing-up purposes. I use several for that purpose but, not for actually serving the music.

I would agree with that for some WD NASs but unfortunately many of the MyCloud devices either hide the ability to create basic shared folders with guest access (that don't have user accounts and external access tied to them) so generally we dissuade people from purchasing such units if they want to use them for backup or storage for our servers...

Phil