Marc v E
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Go for Synology and western digital red edition regular drives. No need for expensive ssd'sCurrently using 2 separate Raspberry Pi 4's in different rooms - Volumio as the application. I rip to 3 hard drives via dbpoweramp - a drive for each Pi plus a backup. Since Volumio supports NAS I am looking at implementing that for convenience for ripping new CD's.
Currently looking at the below solution.
SSD's chosen for no mechanical noise. Looking for "tales from the dark side" implementations of NAS's. Somehow, no matter how easy these things are made out to be, never seems to be that "easy".
And make sure you put it outside the listening room.
Lessons learned:
1 Synology is a very good buy. I have the ds418play.
2 Don't think of a NAS as your backup, at least not your single one.
3 Format in a language supported by your laptops/pcs. Then when you do a backup it is easily manageble by your regular pc too. I chose a 2 tb ssd as a backup that I keep at my parents place in case of fire. It's updated every few months. You could also keep a backup in the cloud. A 4 euro a month subscription to Amazon prime gives you a few TBs iirc.
4 Don't buy the cheapest. No need to buy the most expensive either. For music pretty much any NAS will do. Most important is the software that manages the NAS. Had Synology recommended by many and no regrets at all. Would heartily recommend it.
5 I went for 4 drives with 2 spares iirc. Was recommended by a longtime NAS user.
6 I use RAID 10 . Then it makes sense to use cheapish drives. In fact RAID means Redundant Array of Inexpensive/ Independant Disks. RAID 5 is good too if you don't mind that only 1 disk may fail
To be honest when I built it I thought it would be my only backup so I chose the safest option. But since I learned that a backup is required anyway I would choose raid 5 now.
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