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In Reply to: RE: Or. . . a shared drive in another room posted by Chris from Lafayette on February 03, 2017 at 23:43:07
Are you talking about drive(s) within or attached to a PC/Mac shared out over the network for other devices like music streamers located in other parts of the house? This is essentially a NAS, but often more flexible.
I have such a setup but I still keep it quiet locally. The Mac Mini in my office is quiet and it directly drives my office DAC and amp. Additionally, it acts as a NAS for my network music streamer down in the basement.
So my Mac Mini performs double duty in this regard (office music server and NAS) and I can also use it to rip CDs or download hi-res material. And of course it will also run some demanding apps like HQPlayer. Same functionality can be had from a quiet PC.
I've thought about going the dedicated NAS route but for me it doesn't really make sense as that would mean yet another device on the network to be managed when I have all the NAS functionality I need -and more- in the Mac Mini.
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In the beginning, there was my office server continually used for many tasks, both personal and professional...
I maintain a powerful unit that just happens to provide remote NAS storage for players located elsewhere in (and outside) the house. With my LMS software, it also performs the FLAC decoding so that the streamers only see uncompressed WAV files.
I see no need for "dedicated local storage" especially since I leverage a common digital library for effectively five different systems.
Yup, it's all a matter how one wants to approach a solution for their own particular needs. In my case I don't really need a dedicated NAS as the Mac Mini also performs this role.
As you know, a typical consumer NAS is nothing more than a (often under powered) 'computer' with RAID disks serving up files via various network protocols.... pretty much all of which are also supported on general purpose computers.
The shared drive is in another part of the house.
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