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Bill Kearney:

--- Quote from: apgood on May 22, 2017, 07:55:36 pm ---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.

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Sure, if you're going to use MC for it's full range of features, like higher-end encodings or resolutions then you'd absolutely want to consider making certain it has plenty of resources at it's disposal.  Running inside a VM definitely presents the potential for interruptions that you might not get on dedicated hardware, that's absolutely correct.

To that end I've got an i7-equipped NAS with 32gb of RAM in it.  It's definitely not under-powered and having it run an MC install for the arguably limited number of functions I want out of it is pretty likely to avoid any VM-based problems.

I don't want to take a side for/against using a NAS.  My thought is if you're really pushing the full range of MC features then you'd be a fool to avoid using a dedicated piece of hardware for it.  I'm not, so I'm willing to entertain the idea.  But not if it's known to be a clusterf*ck of incompatibilities.  Been there, done that, don't want to waste that time again.

Likewise, lashing up a combination of media stored on the NAS and MC installed on a dedicated box is probably not beyond the realm of considering.  It just adds yet another lump of hardware and the 'glue' to stitch it together.  Fortunately it's a pretty cheap piece of hardware, so cost alone is not really much of a factor.

QNAP and things running directly, sigh, their support for this is somewhat erratic.  Yeah, it 'ought to be possible' but I'd rather suffer the slight performance bump of running inside a VM instead, given I'm really only using it for music management and not all the other fantastic features.

pschelbert:

--- Quote from: JimH on May 21, 2017, 07:34:27 am ---Don't do it.  Consider a JRiver Id instead.  You'll avoid problems trying to get a QNAP or Synology or similar NAS to work with MC.  The Id has perfect support for MC.

www.jriver.com/Id

Then add a USB 3.0 drive. 



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Hi

1) what are the benchmark figures of that compiuter (JRiver Benchmark)
2) Is it fanless?, noiseless? (no HD)

Peter

Grundgütigster:
For us Mac users, a (older) Mac Mini with MC would be the equivalent of Intel's Nuc.  ;D

Easy to set up and to access via built in Finder tools once you have installed MC; and you can use Apple's remote control to remote control MC. I use it for quite some time with JRemote from my iPad.

astromo:

--- Quote from: pschelbert on May 25, 2017, 02:49:56 am ---Hi

1) what are the benchmark figures of that compiuter (JRiver Benchmark)
2) Is it fanless?, noiseless? (no HD)

Peter

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Regarding point 2, if you navigate to the link provided you'll find that the Id hardware uses an Intel NUC 5CPYH. Search the web more widely and you should find the answer to your questions.

pschelbert:
Hi regarding point 2), I could not find it in the Intel specs, I know vendors tend to hide the disadvantiges..

Peroancenc wise I doubt it has power (computing power), the figures therefore important

Peter

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