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In Reply to: RE: QNap NAS posted by Old Listener on January 18, 2017 at 09:49:00
I also waited on the NAS until they were Better/Faster/Cheaper.... I only got mine a couple months ago....
A question though... Why do you even have storage on your NUC's? Why not everything on the NAS? After I moved all my files from my PC to my NAS, that is when I decided to go the Mini PC route and get rid of all the Spinning hard drives in my office.Cut-Throat
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Well, I expect that we'll be using these NUCs for perhaps 7 years. I don't know how my needs will change over that period. I went for some flexibility:
- tall NUC cases so that I could put both an m.2 SSD and a SATA drive (SSD or HD) in them.
- big 1TB SSDs rather than boot drives. I could migrate my files and my wife's to the NAS in a comfortable way. My local SSD has been useful for temporary project storage. I recently had 338 GB of image backups and such on that 1 TB drive. I keep photos on my local SSD until I've selected, edited and winnowed them.
- wireless keyboard and mouse. NUCs have only 4 USB ports, so managing connections requires thought.
- fewer USB audio connections. I have only one working USB DAC connected to my NUC. (The transmitter end of a wireless DAC is connected to allow me to park the Windows default playback device on something other than the DAC that I actually use. A lot of webpages now start up videos with sound without my permission. They defeat Windows muting by adjusting volume. UGLY!)
my blog: http://carsmusicandnature.blogspot.com/
I have all of my audio streamed via Raspberry Pi's. So nothing connected directly to a PC.... I do run LMS on my PC which does any processing before passing it on to the Rasp. Pi's.
I am also planning on Wireless Keyboard, Mouse, Printer.... I am on a mission to get rid of Cables, Clutter, Noise and moving to a Small Form Factor....
Cut-Throat
"I have all of my audio streamed via Raspberry Pi's. So nothing connected directly to a PC.... I do run LMS on my PC which does any processing before passing it on to the Rasp. Pi's."
On my NUC, I listen to my music files via JRiver on the NUC. I also listen to browser output for YouTube videos and for eClassical samples. With my old PCXs, I was playing music from a dedicated MusicPC and browser output from my personal PC. Both outputs went into a two input DAC. Switching the active input was an effective way to silence unwanted browser audio. No more dedicated MusicPC so I needed a different solution.
"I am also planning on Wireless Keyboard, Mouse, Printer.... I am on a mission to get rid of Cables, Clutter, Noise and moving to a Small Form Factor.... "
Amen to that. And old, small hard drives. And software I don't use now. And KVM switches.
my blog: http://carsmusicandnature.blogspot.com/
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