wesg;151225 Wrote: > Thanks again for the help. > > I had cleared and scaned teh database prior to my last post, however > after your reponse and did this one more time and now the cover art is > appearing properly in the gallery mode. > > It is pretty slow, however I expect this is due to performance issues > with transfering a large number of images from the ReadyNAS to the XP > box. No, that wouldn't be the reason. The images don't actually need to be transfered, since SlimServer doesn't scan these files like it does music files. It only needs to get directory listings from the NAS and catalog the artwork that it finds.
> If you have a similar set up can you help me gauge what a proper > expectation would be. My ReadyNAS NV+ has 1GB Ram, the XP Pro box has > a 3.4GHz processor and 1GB Ram. Connected with a 100MB wired network, > with a couple switches in between. Sounds very similar to my setup. I have a ReadyNAS 600, about 16 months old, with four 320GB hard drives, giving me about 870 GB of usable storage space. I increased RAM to 512 MB when I got the NAS, but RAM makes very little difference in speed on the Infrants except maybe if you're running a lot of the built in applications. I only use mine now for a file server - I don't even run the FTP or any of the backup applications that come with it. If you have a recent ReadayNAS NV, it should be marginally faster than my 600. The server has a 3.0 GHz P4 and 1 GB of RAM. The server and NAS are connected via gigabit Ethernet with jumbo frames. This is probably the biggest difference in our setups, although I don't know how much difference it might make. It takes 20-25 minutes for my server to scan about 13,000 Flac encoded tracks in 1100 albums. My next plan is to buy a 500GB drive, which will be more than enough for my music library, for under $200 and relegate the ReadyNAS to only backup duties. This should speed up SlimServer scans greatly, by having the files stored on the server itself. In the not too distant future I'll sell the NAS with the drives, and just add drive capacity to my server. You can purchase 750GB drives now - nearly the capacity of my NAS - for under $400, so it just doesn't make a lot of sense to pay $1500+ for a populated NAS with not much more capcity. The drive redundancy really doesn't buy you much peace of mind. Much better to have good backups. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29147 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
