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In Reply to: RE: Why? posted by E-Stat on October 9, 2014 at 08:33:38
True that a USB port won't power a 3.5" drive, but all of the external 3.5" drives provide their own power supply. For 2.5" drives, I think most drives made today can be powered by a motherboard's USB port. The Touch doesn't provide enough power for all external 2.5" drives, but it will power many of them.
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is that lookup and search performance suffers if you use local storage for the (tens of) thousands of entries possible with terabyte drives. I use my quad core i7-860 server for decompression and library functions.
As for me, I really prefer the concept of having a single library of all my digital content that is accessible across multiple systems.
> is that lookup and search performance suffers if you use local storage for the
> (tens of) thousands of entries possible with terabyte drives. I use my quad core
> i7-860 server for decompression and library functions.
Yes. The Touch was badly underpowered for what the designers had hoped to accomplish with it. It's pretty close to unusable with a locally attached library.
> As for me, I really prefer the concept of having a single library of all my digital
> content that is accessible across multiple systems.
Same here. Thankfully, we're not stuck with the godawful UPnP protocol for Squeezebox and its software.
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