What NAS to link to my music streamer please
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What NAS to link to my music streamer please
Just bought a Cambridge Audio NP30 digital streamer.
It's excellent, but has no hard drive.
Therefore i need a NAS that it can connect to wirelessly. 1TB will probably be enough.
Please can i have your recommendation. Quality preferred to economy. Thanks
It's excellent, but has no hard drive.
Therefore i need a NAS that it can connect to wirelessly. 1TB will probably be enough.
Please can i have your recommendation. Quality preferred to economy. Thanks
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Currently running a HP Proliant Microserver with Windows Home Server 2011. Long thread here: http://www.avforums.com/forums/netwo...rs-thread.html
Got 2x2Tb drives at the moment and room to double up in future.
Plan to install Asset on it at some point so I can stream FLAC. Currently in the process of ripping my CD collection into this lossless format. http://www.dbpoweramp.com/asset-upnp-dlna.htm
Got 2x2Tb drives at the moment and room to double up in future.
Plan to install Asset on it at some point so I can stream FLAC. Currently in the process of ripping my CD collection into this lossless format. http://www.dbpoweramp.com/asset-upnp-dlna.htm
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The server is a physical box but requires some DIY computer fiddling as it comes with no software installed and only a single hard drive. Got mine from here: http://www.crescentelectronics.co.uk...eo-n36l-13-ghz
The main reason everyone jumped on the band wagon with these earlier this year is that HP were doing a £100 cashback offer so the box cost around £130 new, i.e. £230 from the retailer, send off your invoice to HP and get a cheque in the post for £100. Unfortunately that offer has now ended.
I then bought 2*2TB drives for it, they were about £55 back then but with the current shortages due to the flooding in Thailand they're more than that now and an extra memory module bringing it up to 5Gb RAM ( http://www.ebuyer.com/244940-kingsto...-kth-pl313e-4g )
Once I'd bolted everything in I installed Microsoft's Windows Home Server 2011 operating system on it. The OS itself already has inbuilt capabilities for streaming audio, video, etc. just no native support for FLAC files. Hence I looked at Asset as it can run with this OS to stream lossless audio.
You can install Asset on a regular PC too.
The main reason everyone jumped on the band wagon with these earlier this year is that HP were doing a £100 cashback offer so the box cost around £130 new, i.e. £230 from the retailer, send off your invoice to HP and get a cheque in the post for £100. Unfortunately that offer has now ended.
I then bought 2*2TB drives for it, they were about £55 back then but with the current shortages due to the flooding in Thailand they're more than that now and an extra memory module bringing it up to 5Gb RAM ( http://www.ebuyer.com/244940-kingsto...-kth-pl313e-4g )
Once I'd bolted everything in I installed Microsoft's Windows Home Server 2011 operating system on it. The OS itself already has inbuilt capabilities for streaming audio, video, etc. just no native support for FLAC files. Hence I looked at Asset as it can run with this OS to stream lossless audio.
You can install Asset on a regular PC too.
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I have recently bought 2x Qnap 219P+ for work and they are excellent. You have to buy HDs for them and I've put 2X Samsung Spinpoints in both. I bought 4 HDDs just as the floods began to effect prices - they've doubled since then
The Qnap has lots of functions and just works - yes you can build a NAS box from old PC parts but for reasonably simple Plug and Play - ability, you can't fault this one box options.
I went Qnap over Synology simply because I think the Qnap is a bit better but I doubt theres really that much in it.
The Qnap has lots of functions and just works - yes you can build a NAS box from old PC parts but for reasonably simple Plug and Play - ability, you can't fault this one box options.
I went Qnap over Synology simply because I think the Qnap is a bit better but I doubt theres really that much in it.
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I thought this might be a minefield
My over-riding requirement is to be able to stream high resolution 96kHz files. But i don't know enough about NAS systems to know whether they will all do that, or whether i need one type more than another.
All i really want is a ready built black box that i just plug in and switch on. Building a NAS isn't really where i want to go with it if i'm honest, even though i'm sure that would result in a superior bespoke bit of kit.
My over-riding requirement is to be able to stream high resolution 96kHz files. But i don't know enough about NAS systems to know whether they will all do that, or whether i need one type more than another.
All i really want is a ready built black box that i just plug in and switch on. Building a NAS isn't really where i want to go with it if i'm honest, even though i'm sure that would result in a superior bespoke bit of kit.
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easiest solution a small 1TB usb drive plugged into the cambridge. one of those little pocket versions that uses a laptop drive. you could hide it behind the unit. just rip you cd collection in flac or lossless to the drive and away you go. no messing no fuss.
easiest solution a small 1TB usb drive plugged into the cambridge. one of those little pocket versions that uses a laptop drive. you could hide it behind the unit. just rip you cd collection in flac or lossless to the drive and away you go. no messing no fuss.
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