Article: New Storage Options From QNAP and Samsung

[The Computer Audiophile]

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[Rt66indierock]

Your timing is excellent, I'm going  upgrade my office laptop and use it for audio purposes.

[Ralf11]

I've been watching the  860 QVO technology for a few weeks and hoping OWC will make one into a Thunderbolt add-on for the iMac...

[DuckToller]

The QNAP hompage mentions the possibility to connect one ore more TR-004 bay (https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/tr-004) via USB3 to the NAS. When done, you may use RAID 5, which imho is more cost/capacity effective (i.e.6 x 3TB equals 15 TB capacity and 1x 3TB parity).
Apart from that, nice review, Chris!
Cheers, Tom

[The Computer Audiophile]

3 hours ago, DuckToller said:

The QNAP hompage mentions the possibility to connect one ore more TR-004 bay (https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/tr-004) via USB3 to the NAS. When done, you may use RAID 5, which imho is more cost/capacity effective (i.e.6 x 3TB equals 15 TB capacity and 1x 3TB parity).
Apart from that, nice review, Chris!
Cheers, Tom

Hi Tom - I tried to see if it’s possible to use the M.2 drives for storage as well, not just cache or app loading. That would be nice. But, I don’t think it’s possible. 

[rickca]

This is another interesting development in hard drive technology.  It isn't useful for audio applications, but it's designed to get more IOPS out of these huge capacity (16TB+) drives.  I was a storage systems product manager for many years at IBM so I still follow stuff like this with interest.

 

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12169/seagates-multi-actuator-technology-to-double-hdd-performance

[The Computer Audiophile]

Just saw Seagate’s announcement of a 16TB drive and aim for 20TB by 2020. 

 

https://blog.seagate.com/craftsman-ship/hamr-milestone-seagate-achieves-16tb-capacity-on-internal-hamr-test-units/

[R1200CL]

Qnap just realsed another version, that also supports Roon. 

 

https://www.qnap.com/en/product/tbs-453dx