[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: What is the best NAS Solution?

2006-07-29 Thread Chander
Finally, i've received my Synology CS 406 yesterday (firmware 357), spent 30' to install, format (!) and configure 4 sata HDD Seagate 320 Go in Raid 5; 15' for installing and running slimserver 6.3.1 on it (a thousand thanks to flipflip); 13 hours for the transfer of my musical files (280 Go in fl

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: What is the best NAS Solution?

2006-07-29 Thread Chander
Finally, i'v received my Synology CS 406 yesterday (firmwa -- Chander Chander's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3691 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25727

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: What is the best NAS Solution?

2006-07-27 Thread 325xi
Chander Wrote: > I've bought a synology DS 101G+ few months ago and i'm so satisfied with > this product in combination with squeezebox/slimserver that i just > command the new synology CS406 (Raid 5, 4 HDD...). Furthermore, since > the great contribution of flipflip for installing slimserver on

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: What is the best NAS Solution?

2006-07-27 Thread Chander
I've bought a synology DS 101G+ few months ago and i'm so satisfied with this product in combination with squeezebox/slimserver that i just command the new synology CS406 (Raid 5, 4 HDD...). Furthermore, since the great contribution of flipflip for installing slimserver on the synology's products

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: What is the best NAS Solution?

2006-07-27 Thread 325xi
If you're planning to stor just music, you can pick any. If it's gonna act a s a general file server, including music storage, you'd better look at performance numbers. So far Thecus 5200 seems to be the fastest among the SOHO solutions. I've seen it for $699 w/o drives. -- 325xi --

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: What is the best NAS Solution?

2006-07-27 Thread ultra238a
Hi, It runs AlienBBC very well as well as transcoding Apple lossless well too - through multiple streams at once too. It is an expensive product yes but specification and performance wise it is up there and above the Infrant product. The TS-401T isn't as quite as the TS-101 obviously but I woul

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: What is the best NAS Solution?

2006-07-26 Thread adrianh1960
Hi, Your solution looks to be as good as anything else I have seen although I wonder how it will run the plug-ins such as Alien BBC. I'm also interested in the noise performance (particularly on the 30+ degree heatwave we're having at the moment. The only problem is the price. For the price of

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: What is the best NAS Solution?

2006-07-25 Thread ultra238a
Hi Obviously I am going to blow our trumpet here. We do the Qnap TS-401T which is a x86 800Mhz with 256Mb RAM. The unit has 4 hot swappable sATA drive bays, twin gigabit LAN ports, hot swappale PSU's, 2x USB 2.0 ports for CD/DVD backup and network printing. If you follow the Qnap TS-101 thread

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: What is the best NAS Solution?

2006-07-23 Thread jbm0
richidoo Wrote: > Also, after a power outage, NAS loses its DCHP license from external > (Linksys) DHCP server, so my link to slimserver changes. I guess it > doesn't know enough to ask DHCP for the same address like windows > client does. This is easily solved with a UPS, which is a good idea >

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: What is the best NAS Solution?

2006-07-23 Thread richidoo
I have a ReadyNAS NV and I am very happy with it. It is a good unit, very robust and reliable. You have read all the good points on their website. So the only bad points I have noticed are that it has loud fan noise which never shuts off, so you cannot put it in your listening area, gotta LAN i

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: What is the best NAS Solution?

2006-07-23 Thread egd
adrianh1960 Wrote: > Is ReadyNAS worth the extra cost (UK price is £860 against £500 for the > Terastation, for 1TB) > Would I just be better off using the NAS as as NAS only and running > Slimserver on my PC? > > Would be interested in any views. My post in the following thread may be use