Re: [slim] NAS Advice

[cfuttrup]

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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Re: [slim] NAS Advice

[atrocity]

d6jg wrote: 
> 
> 1. Get a NAS from either manufacturer but consider the storage
> requirement carefully. You can always upgrade the disks at a later
> stage.
> 2. Get yourself a Pi4. Install piCorePlayer and LMS on the Pi. Point it
> at the storage on the NAS.

Another advantage to having a Pi in the system is that it can handle the
backups. The primary storage can be on fancy NASes, but the Pi can host
external USB drives and automatically perform automatic backups using
rsync jobs scheduled via crontab. (That's pretty much what I've been
doing for years now.)

I'm curious if the new 8GB Pi 4 models work well with zfs (allegedly the
most reliable file system out there). My guess in that case is that
having two Pi 4 boxes (a primary and a backup) hosting USB drives would
probably be both cheaper and more robust than a commercial NAS, but
maybe I'm crazy.



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Re: [slim] Some Rasberry Pi / LMS questions for a complete beginner.

[mandryka]

d6jg wrote: 
> Both the Behringer & HiFiMe have to be powered from the USB on the Pi

Thank you. I feel like a complete idiot for forgetting that the Pi has
USBs!



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