Recomend a NAS for me!!!!

by **Lowlander** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:35 pm

The question I would have is if such systems run on the NAS or on the host. If it's on the NAS both the CPU speed and available memory probably matter.

Anyway I have never seen issues about this anywhere so I assume it works well.

If you worry about speed issue you could consider building your own NAS using a generic machine and an OS like FreeNAS. I don't know if Windows Home Server is available as software only or that it comes with hardware, otherwise you consider it as well.

by **botijo** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:47 pm

Hi, Lowlander,
well, you might be right. Let me rephase the questions then:
If you use the internal UPNP server (Twonkymedia), how well does it fare in regards big collections? Does search results come back inmediately? Can you search for album artists?
I am just worried that those devices do not have much RAM to store the whole artist/album database. Just imagine my database for MediaMonkey is as big as 20 MB!

by **Lowlander** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:09 pm

I think your confusing 2 things.

The NAS does have performance measurements, but's it's more about throughput/access time etc. instead of how many songs it can handle (depends on hard drive size). You might want to check out SmallNetBuilder's NAS performance charts for that.

The questions you ask would be related to your media player, like MediaMonkey. MediaMonkey handles large libraries and Album Artists well.

by **botijo** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 1:41 pm

Hi, Theking,
I know people around might ask, but how is performance in that Lacie Ethernet harddisk? I am curious if it can handle a big database (+10.000 tracks) properly.
And another question: does it handle multiple artists albums (compilations, tributes, OST...) properly?

by **theking2** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:02 am

Lacie Ethernet Disk Mini does the trick for me. Together with a DLink WLAN router/firewall and a wifi Noxon2 Terratec media player it rocks and has 500TB available. The Linux based NAS OS with Twonkey Media integrated seems just to be the thing. www.lacie.com . There are some newer products that I have not tested.

by **MrE** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:21 pm

If you already have an external USB 2.0 hard drive, you may want to consider the excellent and VERY cheap Linksys NSLU2 a.k.a. the slug which costs between £50 and £60. It consumes very little energy and is completely silent.

After loading an alternative firmware, it runs pretty much anything you could think of, and there's a thriving community around it. Quite a few products have direct support for the slug, including Firefly (previously known as mt-daapd) which essentially is an opensource iTunes server, and TwonkyMedia which isn't free but quite affordable and offers lots of features.

Check out

http://www.nslu2-linux.org/
http://mediatomb.cc/
http://www.twonkyvision.com/Download/Tw ... index.html
http://www.fireflymediaserver.org/

by **Tylast** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:57 pm

Thecus!

by **Lowlander** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 3:27 pm

The Ximeta drives do support NFTS.

by **Big_Berny** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 8:37 am

I tested some Synology NAS, also the DS-106e, for the computer magazin I work for and they worked great. Although I didn't test it with MediaMonkey.

Big_Berny

by **dahphatman** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 7:24 am

I have been using using two Synology NAS, one as fileserver, one for backup, for the past 12 months and I am very happy with them.

One caveat: I do not know how this works with other NAS - The Synology supports FAT32 and a proprietary file system, it does not support NTFS - This is an issue if you have files >4GB as these can not be stored on FAT32, so you have to use the proprietary format. The downside of using that is that you can not just take out the harddisk or a and stick it in your desktop in case the Synology should ever die on you, you would have to find another Synology NAS to save the data.

by **Lowlander** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:54 pm

I recently stumbled on the SmallNetBuilder website which has nice reviews.

As for the FileMonitor this only works if some advice is given (by Windows) that files have changed. This advice updates the MediaMonkey DB. Most NAS's don't give this advice MediaMonkey can't auto update (otherwise it would need to scan your drive continuously which is not a good thing either).

Guest wrote:Look, to tell you the truth, I have had nothing but problems with my NAS & Mediamonkey. To the point where I am almost sadly consdiering giving up Mediamonkey. Winamp, Itunes others have no problem at all, but monkey is just a constant headache.

What issues do you have?

by **Kos** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:20 am

I am VERY happy with my NAS (Maxtor Shared Storage Plus) setup. Ok, the MM Gold file monitor feature isn't working (so I have to manually do a rescan once in a while) but that's all.

The QNAP TS101 (and 201) NAS has Twonky embedded. Don't know about the LAN thing. Go to the very capable Twonky forum and you will get answers right away: http://www.twonkyvision.de/forum/index.php

Twonky rules.

Kos

by **radiocaroline** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:14 am

I'm also looking for a NAS-device, which should have any UPNP-Server integrated (Twonky prefered) and have a wake-on-LAN-feature to save energy. Still I am not successful in finding this!

by **Guest** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:43 am

Look, to tell you the truth, I have had nothing but problems with my NAS & Mediamonkey. To the point where I am almost sadly consdiering giving up Mediamonkey. Winamp, Itunes others have no problem at all, but monkey is just a constant headache.

I would consider my options very careflly when getting an NAS

by **Lowlander** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:19 pm

I like my Ximeta's, they just serve as NAS without any other features. But in many test it comes out as one of the fastest available. And even better if you buy just the case you can save a lot of money ($70 for the case and $340 for a 750GB HDD).

I am waiting for the next generation drives which will be SATA with Gigabit and it also seems that they will launch some media type devices.

Netgear also has a cheap enclosure and they just announced their Gigabit version (the 100Mb version doesn't get reviewed very well).

Buffalo is interesting due to the many options available. They have up to 2 terrabyte devices and also hardware players that can run off them. Do take care selecting the right product for you.

Another option is LaCie which normally get's good reviews but does have a premium in price for design.

You can also choose to build your own NAS with Linux like FreeNAS

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