I have ReadyNAS NV and I find it to work very well with the SB. On the PROs side, It is easy to configure, easy to update, expandable storage, RAID5, transfers data on and off the array EXTREMELY fast. They give excellent service and have an active user forum. 4 drive design allows expansion up to 2.4TB in RAID 5 redundant array. Your data is protected from drive failure by a data redundancy scheme. It is upgradable, and drives are hot swappable. Due to the transfer speed I have seen from it, I would guess it could easily feed several SBs and a network DVD player simultaneously. It is the only NAS solution which actively supports running Slimserver. For me, this was the biggest advantage. I didn't have to trust some geek on the internet to tell me how to hack the product and void my warrantee while drastically reduce my music listening time and reminding me why I left the IT industry.
On the Downsides, slimserver user interface is not as fast on ReadyNAS as on my pentium 4 PC. That has not been a big problem for me, but I am more patient now than I was in my youth. It runs faster if you have your music library well organized and wav files sorted and labelled correctly, and server configured correctly. You must use the official Infrant version of Slimserver with the ReadyNAS OS. This means you must wait until Slim Devices releases an official upgrade before you get ANY of the updates. You cannot use any of the nightly upgrades available for small incremental changes. 6.2.2 is now available on infrant, and this is a very good revision, but undoubtably there will be tweaks that you will not want to wait a few months to get. The ReadyNAS is loud due to the cooling fan. This really doesn't matter as long as you have an ethernet connection somewhere where noise doesn't matter. It is too loud to have it next to your SB for any critical music listening. Much louder than a PC. To get the most value out of it, you need a network in your house, minimum PC + multi-port switch + SB, preferrably router with WAN for internet radio stations. Last, it is expensive compared to USB drives, but most Infrant customers feel that they got their money's worth from Infrant. Overall, I think it is a good product for serving a very large music collection to a SqueezeBox. Rich -- richidoo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ richidoo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3097 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22820 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
