28-Jul-2017, 13:55
I use a Synology DS416j NAS with a pair of 6TB Western Digital (WD) Red drives. WD is now offering 10TB hard drives so you can have 40TB of storage in a 4 bay NAS, slightly less storage if you enable RAID as your backup plan, which I highly recommend. WD provides a 5-year warranty on their Red drives.
The NAS is connected to my Netgear switch and I use MinimServer on a MacMini as the UPnP music server software. Setting up the MinimServer software takes some patience but once the environment is set up, you only need to launch MinimServer and run a quick re-scan when you add song titles to your NAS. My Mac Mini remains powered off most of the time as I use a Lumin S1 as my network player & DAC.
Make sure to use high quality Ethernet cables to connect your NAS and any other equipment in the playback chain. It makes a difference for SQ.
The NAS is connected to my Netgear switch and I use MinimServer on a MacMini as the UPnP music server software. Setting up the MinimServer software takes some patience but once the environment is set up, you only need to launch MinimServer and run a quick re-scan when you add song titles to your NAS. My Mac Mini remains powered off most of the time as I use a Lumin S1 as my network player & DAC.
Make sure to use high quality Ethernet cables to connect your NAS and any other equipment in the playback chain. It makes a difference for SQ.
