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  1. Thanks for taking the time to reply and your suggestions guys.....much appreciated. The WD drives I currently own are both NAS as outlined in my previous post. I have just locked the XML file as suggested and iTunes is absolutely flying now, no slow down at all. No colour wheel at all, however......... If I navigate to the NAS drive on the Mac using Finder (or on my Windows PC) it is definitely slower than it used to be, no doubt about that. I am just wondering whether the WD NAS hasn't got the power to cope when a library gets large®? Thanks D
  2. I have a 2011 Mac Mini (2.5 GHz with 8 Gb Ram) running iTunes and Pure Music (set up to play from memory with hog mode). This feeds my DAC via USB I currently have 2 x 2 TB Western Digital My Book World NAS Drives (the white ones). I doing all of my ripping via a Windows machine and rip to AIFF using dB Poweramp. I have this set to Multi-Encoder and rip to both drives simulanteously so I have back up copy of everything I rip. My entire network is hard wired and everything is connected to a HP Procurve Gigabit Switch. Since getting a Spotify Premium the amount of music I am listening to (and subsequently buying on CD) has gone through the roof (approaching 2000 albums). Because of this I am noticing a bit of slow down when navigating through the NAS drive and also Pure Music is taking a little longer to play (not an eternity but it is definitely getting slower with the colour wheel appearing). I always told myself that at some point I would buy myself a more robust storage solution but...........which one??? The QNAP 419P II - along with 4 x 2TB HDD configured for Raid 5 is mighty tempting. The other option could be one of the HP Proliant 4 Bay Microservers again with 4 drives, with WHS 2011 installed. Here in the UK these are available with £100.00 cashback at the minute so this is obviously appealing as well. Once a WHS 2011 is set up and running I presume it runs like a NAS and can be headless? They will be used for nothing other than music. I will probably still retain one of the WD drives as another back-up (as I'm paranoid!) but keep it off site (at work) and back it up via my passport drive as and when I buy new CD's. Just wanted to get a few thoughts, opinions and suggestions - The HP option is quite a bit cheaper....is the QNAP worth the extra money? Thanks in advance D
  3. Was thinking something like this with 4 x 1TB drives, the model below comes without any drives as standard so I can pick my own. http://www.netgear.com/Products/Storage/ReadyNASNVPlus/RND4000.aspx?detail=Specifications It lists AFP in the specifications, would it be ok or can someone recommend something better or simply different? Thanks again
  4. Music is just under 420gb as things stand at the moment, but it is growing all the time. My network is fully wired (thank god I had the vision to do this before the house was redone). Connecting up new (set up as FAT32 I presume) and current NAS drives and transferring files over would be easy enough. Just need to decide on a new NAS (I want one anyway for reasons mentioned above). Worst case scenario would be the USB key, painful but less painful than re-ripping. Thanks
  5. Many thanks for the replies, much appreciated. My Buffalo NAS has been configured for NTFS. How about this for a solution - buy a new NAS which is ok with a MAC and transfer the files over across the network? If this will work I don't mind buying another NAS, I could give my current drive to my dad as he was on about getting one anyway. My current drive is just a single drive and I would like something with some redundancy built in, something with 4 bays ideally, just so I am futureproof and safe - any recommendations would be welcome! If transferring the files this way is problematic is there another way I could do it without having to rip again? If doing it again is the only option so be but it will be so soul destroying to have to do it all again. Would a 32GB USB memory stick be any good for this or am I barking up the wrong tree. Thanks again
  6. Hi, My music is currently stored on a NAS drive, I use itunes (for iPods) and Sonos. The Sonos is connected to my DAC/hi-fi system. I am thinking about ditching the Sonos and buying a Mac Mini and an iPod touch to control it. When I do this do I need a screen to set up the mac mini or can I do it using the iPod touch? - I will be using it for nothing other than itunes. All my NAS stored music is Apple Lossless and was ripped on my laptop (not a mac), will the mac mini see it ok or will I need to rerip. I presume the mac mini will see the NAS on the network and that's it or is there more to it than that? I hope it's the former as I have over 1000 CD's! Thanks D
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