Hi xebec59
Welcome to posting on this forum.
>Essentially nearly 5000 CDs ripped plus later purchases.
It sounds like a lot ... like you'll need maybe 4 TB of disk space. At
Archimago's Musings he investigated what people actually have:
http://archimago.blogspot.com/2020/06/musingspoll-lifetime-of-digital-audio.html
(Direct link:
https://www.poll-maker.com/results2961795x58875a24-87#tab-2 )
Results (trend):
46% has less than 1 TB of actual music in their library.
64% has less than 2 TB
82% has less than 4 TB
>Amazon UK currently have a Synology DS220j with 2 x 14TB Seagate
Ironwolf drives for £705. Would this NAS be suitable?
Absolutely, yes.
>the LMS packages are now "unofficial" - How much of an issue is that?
Personally this is discouraging me from buying another Synology NAS -
I've purchased several since my first in 2008 - but I might still buy
Synology ... then it will only be for the file management.
The direction I am considering is, as also proposed by others here in
this thread, to consider a Raspberry Pi, which runs the LMS (with
piCorePlayer configured not as a player, but running entirely as a
server). This can either pick files from the NAS or (more likely) I'll
connect a disk directly to the RPi-LMS server and only say 'mirror' it
on the NAS. The NAS in my world may as well be powered off most of the
time unless I find other reasons to keep it on.
Cheers,
Claus
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