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RE: Storage of hi-res music from Tidal, Qobuz etc. on appropriate hardware?

Posted by Rod M (W) on May 9, 2017 at 08:02:52

In Reply to: Storage of hi-res music from Tidal, Qobuz etc. on appropriate hardware? posted by hesslemount@yahoo.com on May 9, 2017 at 03:55:22:

A good NAS drive can get expensive. We use one for backups, music and video. My wife also does video production, so our storage needs are fairly large. Ultimately, we went with a QNAP TS-853 Pro 8-Bay NAS Server. Loaded with 4TB drives in a RAID 6 configuration, it yields about 21TB of storage.

A two drive NAS can only be configured for disk mirroring, so it's maximum storage would be the size of one drive, up to 6TB if it supports 6TB drives. For music. 2 or 3TB would be plenty. I've got over 1,800 albums stored as lossless wav files and it amounts to less than 1TB.

Video is a whole other animal. An hour of mp4 HD video will run about 2GB. Depending on length and encoding, a movie can be 3-5GB for HD, and a lot more for 4K, up to 4X as much.

I prefer to buy diskless and then, I know what kind of drives I'm using and can have a spare drive in case of a failure. My preference is 7,200 RPM HGST Deskstar NAS drives. WD Red NAS drives are also well regarded though they're 5,400 RPM drives which typically are slightly slower, not that you'd likely notice the difference for streaming.

If you think that you'll exceed a single drive capacity, I advise going to a 4 bay NAS. with RAID5, you could store about 16TB using 6TB drives or 10TB with 4TB drives.

-Rod

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