![]() Slow but steady using EAC (Exact Audio Copy) to try and make it 'perfect' one and done. in either 2, 4, 6 bay formats.I have started the ball rolling on ripping cd's to flac. They can often be found 'cheap' and 'used' on eBay and similar sites. These boxes cope well too with sudden power outages and were extremely good in their day. but that’s all Sonos supports anyway at the moment. Sadly my boxes are now fairly old and no longer supported by netgear for about 18 months to 2 years, or more, so no support for the later versions of SMB other than v1. The boxes also have teaming and fallover support that allows the two full duplex gigabit Ethernet ports to be grouped together for much faster performance. The boxes I bought allowed the user to add additional Ram and so I added as much as allowed, which I think was 2gig of DDR3. They power on/off automatically (daily schedule) and backup to each other, once a week. It allows the drives to be hot-swapped for larger ones as capacity is reached, or if a drive fails. I still use old Netgear Readynas Pro boxes too, and bought them diskless many years ago and installed the cheaper WD Green drives into them, setup on the proprietary X-Raid-2, which is similar to Raid 5 redundancy. ![]() Here's a link that explains NAS and also gives links to other topics: Īfter you do your research seek advice from a knowledgeable friend or sales person you trust. Personally, I don't like a NAS device that is non-configurable or pre-loaded with generic drives. ![]() However, even WD has performance levels meaning some are budget friendly and others may break the bank. I use Western Digital (WD) Red as I have had good performance and reliability with WD drives. The HD is where your data is stored which IMO is the heart of a NAS. In truth features aside for NetGear and the other brands it comes down to what type of Hard Drive(s) you want to install. Quite frankly the brands other than Synology in the link I provided I've never heard of (although they must be good if recommended by PC Magazine.right :8) The Synology brand is excellent but so are Buffalo and Drobo. I can create custom shares and access it remotely. For instance in regards to features I have my NetGear NAS set to power down at 11PM it even has it's own antivirus. My point here is that BEST really comes down to features you want and capacity. To that I have a 6TB USB drive connected as a backup to my NAS. Now here's the truth I use a NetGear NAS device set in RAID with 4TB's of drive space. Here's a link to recommended Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. I agree with the comments about high quality MP3 v FLAC, though - I'm not sure that I can tell the difference - but would still go for lossless if I did have to do it all again. I use a NAS for normal music access, make complete backups to another NAS (that also carries my other data backups) and then back up that NAS to external hard drives, some kept off-site.Depends how paranoid you want to be, but I have no intention of ever re-ripping my music, if it can possibly be avoided. I worked on the basis that ripping all my CDs was such a huge chore that I might as well go for a lossless approach, as it means that I should never have to re-rip them - you can always down sample, but not up. ![]() ![]() I'd go for FLAC - it's lossless and not tied to any one manufacturer. I need to move my CD Collection off my hard drive and onto a NAS so I don't have to open my computer everytime.also how should I be ripping? FLAC? Lossless? AIFF? Which will give me the best quality? ![]()
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