> I'm not following how you jump from audio quality to > redundancy to reliability at once. They are different > issues that one can decide to implement or not > as your strokes require.
But there are some trade-offs, like in every engineering project, given the amount of resources one is willing to commit. And I am not talking only money - also convenience, perceived "elegance" of the solution. Both objective and subjective parameters are relvant here - I am not designing my system for public use, after all. Yes, the Netgear solution has limitations (I can't recall ever claiming the limitations are the SQB or SLMSRV), but it seemed to be a simple and elegant way for my own set of priorities. Why? I have a specially designed quiet computer. I hate fan noise in my study. A friend let me play with a full RAID server in case I was interested, but the noise level was utterly unacceptable. I spend long hours working, reading and writing in my study. Once you have gone low noise, you will not go back. The Netgear offers mirrored networked drives, and is very quiet. Bingo as far as I am concerned. As to audio quality, well, in the audiophle world the debate it existed long before the advent of MP3s and FLACs. It's part of the fun to argue about it. To claim LPs sound better despite lower SN ratios. To hear differences in cables. To not hear a difference between 256k and 320k MP3, or to claim the quality loss is defensible in some cases... the more things change... -- pablolie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21173 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
