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RE: FiiO

Posted by E-Stat on November 29, 2020 at 07:58:41:
I'm a pretty advanced user and my NAS sometimes still baffles me. I got it to work, but it is very complicated for the most part. You need a good level of experience in computer networking to get it to work properly. This is for the advanced NAS units one would need to use for audio with lots of storage.

Gee, that's not my experience at all. Last year when I retired my ten year old Win7 box with a MacMini, I opted to purchase a Synology 718+ instead of their pricey SSD storage. While you have to configure the drives, I chose a simple storage pool using all of one 2 TB drive with the other serving as mirror. I downloaded and installed LMS and pretty much that"s all I've had to do other than running updates on various internal applications.

My situation may be different than yours in that I have multiple systems. I purchased a 400 GB microSD card which is capable of storing my digital music library - just because. I could use it to provide a standalone server on a Raspberry PI, but enjoy the benefits of using a single digital library (which also contains about 500 videos) shared by no fewer than eight players around the house when you include the Roku sticks attached to bedroom TVs.

Basically a NAS is a harddrive that you plug into your network router.

Not if it is a good one. Mine is a managed storage environment using a quad core Intel processor that provides optimum data throughput for shared access using 6 GB of cache. It monitors drive health and periodically runs diagnostic tests on the drives and sends me an email reporting the results. Since the OS is a thin Linux based one, it runs for months without the need for rebooting. I'm away from home for the holidays and can access it remotely. As I type, I logged on and find it has been up for 39 days and reports good health.