JackOfAll wrote: > Well, absolute performance wise, local access, even via the USB port is > always going to be "faster" than network access. If you are copying > large files to the disk, then you will really notice the difference in > speed, copying to a locally connected USB drive versus a remote share, > but assuming the drive is being used for your LMS music library, you > could argue that were not so much interested in ultimate performance, > more a case of whether LMS can read the files fast enough from a network > disk/share to stream to the players. The beauty of external USB drives > from my point of view, (as opposed to a drive "statically" mounted in a > PC case), is that when you want to copy files to it, you plug it into > the machine which contains the files, copy them, and then move the drive > back to where you want it to be for day-to-day read access.
Hi Clive, I see what you mean. Thank you for your detailed clarifications. In this prospective, I do like the idea that the new WBQUAD does have a SATA data connector for use of a SATA drive, however, a separate power supply would be required for the SATA drive, as the WBQUAD is not designed to power the drive. I would be interested in knowing which type of power supply/connectors the user lintweaker is using for his SAMSUNG SSD... Primary system: Squeezebox Touch, iPengHD/Squeezepad on iPad3, Little Doc DAC I, Virtue Audio One, Philips DVP3580, Mission M34i. Secondary system: Wandboard Dual with CSOS R4, iPengHD/Squeezepad on iPad3, Cambridge Audio DacMagic, Cambridge Audio Azur 640C V2, Little Dot III, AKG K 702. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ albertone74's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98544 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
