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[SimonT]

Forgive me if I should have put this in the "other hardware" section, but I'm interested in peoples experience with Ripping CD's to a RAID NAS drive.  I have long used a single disk NAS but recently stepped up to a 4 disk (RAID 5) configuration (Promise NS4300N).  This is giving me problems with ripping CD's (but otherwise works fine).  MC13 appears to lose connection with "Error piping data to external application".

Could this just be coincidence - what else could cause this error message?

Any feedback would be welcome - thanks in advance,
Simon T.

[tombert]

Should be a coincidence, but to be sure try to copy a large (e.b. 1GB) file while ripping and see if the copy process stacks or fails.
Me too is running a few SW and HW Raids with no trouble.

[leezer3]

Sounds to me like its bottlenecking out.
To rip a CD, MC needs to generate quite a large file quickly. Basically, if MC tries to create data faster than the drive can handle, it'll error out.
The Promise NS4300N's RAID5 solution is also pretty bad, so I'd definitely be pointing the finger there.
Try ripping to a local drive and then shunting to the NAS instead

-Leezer-

[SimonT]

Thanks both for the feedback.  I was expecting that MC would rip to the temp folder first (which is on a standard disk) before copying to the NAS drive, but this is apparently not the case.  I will try the tip to RIP first to a "fast" disk and the copy manually, but it might be a nice feature to allow to rip to an intermediate directory to avoid any gating issues.