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If you're thinking about buying a NAS
blgentry:
I continue to say that MC does not belong on a VM or on a NAS device. I'm sure others will disagree. I think it's a terrible idea to have resource contention on your music playback device.
Brian.
apgood:
--- Quote from: blgentry on May 22, 2017, 05:18:08 pm ---I continue to say that MC does not belong on a VM or on a NAS device. I'm sure others will disagree. I think it's a terrible idea to have resource contention on your music playback device.
Brian.
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I have a VM with MC running on my unraid server and never have any resource contention issues even using MadVR or SACD rips, but I imagine would be different story if an appliance NAS with lower end hardware in them.
kolia:
--- Quote from: tyler69 on May 22, 2017, 07:09:32 am ---My NAS has different purposes, serving audio and video files to MC is one of them. I don't see a NUC with MC preinstalled (JRiver id) replacing it, as then I'd need to attach several external hard drives in order to fit all my data. I'm not sure a NAS needs more power than an intel NUC with comparable storage. Also the NAS has RAID support, hot swap support and safety measures (and other features) that would probably not be possible or cause problems setting up with a NUC.
What I'm saying is: I understand that a NUC can be used as a file server for MC but that does not make a MC package for NAS's irrelevant. But I suppose that I also understand now why you won't support QNAP / Synology.
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I fully agree with that. I have more that 13TB of video and audio file in RAID 5, how can you compete with that? I would understand such a recommandation for fellows having audio only. Never had any issue with my Synology. Pretty strange recommandation from JimH.
Where has it been stated that NAS are not supported?
Manfred:
From my point of view there are several criteria which drive the MC architecture (my personal decision criteria):
For me the criteria 2.), 4.) and 5.) (I wanted the spinning disks in a different room without the possibility to have a long HDMI connection to my living room) lead my decision to a NAS.
1. Audio only: < 2 TB on music data, a NUC with internal SSD is from my experience a very good architecture pattern for MC. (If you have a 4k monitor and want to use your NUC also for upscaling video to 4k I have seen very rare reviews how a NUC performs supporting this - so be careful on that)
2. Noise: If noise for spinnig disk is no issue for you in your living room then you could replace the SSD under 1.) with an external USB drive. In my living room I had in the beginning of my MC journey 1 x 3 TB WD Red in my HTPC. It was by far the noisiest component, even my new GTX 960 is more quite running madVR.
3. Reliability: My NAS (12 TB) is only used as a file server, nothing else! I have MC installed on a separate Win 10 HTPC. On my NAS I do a quarterly firmware update, I have changed nothing else since 6 years. It is very reliable. My MC installation on Win 10 has many more changes and is far away from the reliability of my NAS. With the Win 10 Upgrate I had to reinstall everything.
4. Volume: > 10 TB media data - A NAS might be better suited for that, but you could have today 2 x 10 TB as USB disk.
5. Location: If you have under plaster ethernet in your home but no HDMI and you want to separate your data from the media server a NAS is from my point of view the better solution. I don‘t want to have 2 spinning disks in my living room.
6. Cost: If cost is no issue one could have the nuc in the living room an a thunderbold array of disks in a different location, but it is very expensive and you need a motherboard supporting thunderbold.
7. Raid: Raid requires also a regular backup and is not a must have. Just a bunch of disk works also. There are different opinions about this in the Forum.
8. MC running directly on a QNAP NAS: With that I have no experience. It depends on how QNAP supports this?
9. Other Criteria: … feel free
kolia:
I should have added that JRiver is installed on a hi-end HTPC. NAS is dedicated to file server.
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