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RE: Any failure of hard disks in your NAS ?

I suggest connecting an external drive directly to your PC and copying a few test files to it. Or, you can copy a few test files to your SSD. Then try comparing the sound quality you get when playing direct from the PC with that when you play from the NAS. Many people have found that sound quality is better when playing off local drives rather than over an Ethernet. If you look at total CPU utilization you will see that the network approach uses more processing in your PC.

I take this one step further and play out of a RAM disk on my PC. So there isn't even any disk I/O at all when listening to music. There is a slight inconvenience for this, however, because it takes a few seconds to convert a file on disk from FLAC to WAV and store the WAV in the RAM disk before I can play an album.

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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