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Hi all, Im thinking of using a NAS RAID storage device for my audio. I want to choose a raid setup that will protect me against drive failure. The most appealing is RAID 5 considering i can take 4 drives, use 3 of them and the 4th is used to for the indexing and rebuilding of the data. However, a simple RAID 10 mirroring system is the safest bet, but i don't get the most out of the RAID system. My confusion is, How can one drive (6TB) successfully rebuild 3 other drives (18TB)? The math doesn't make sense. And if it does recreate the missing data with some type of stored index of data, how will it rebuild the files? It seems like it will most likely affect the sound quality of the files if it has to manually rebuild them and add 1's and 0's Any insight into this would be much appreciated.
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audiolinux Designing a RAID Roon Server w/ HQPlayer upsampling
NellyWhads posted a topic in Music Servers
Hey folks, I've done some reading here on AS and have seen the monumental audiophile PC builds. Sleek fanless chassis with solely solid state storage, LPSUs, and dedicated clocks/USB output cards. It's quite impressive. In my case, I am looking to build a LAN-enabled beast which will not be hosting any local USB audio equipment in the foreseeable future. If it does ever require direct USB output, I will add something like a PPA USB card with a dedicated OCXO clock and an external LPSU just for the USB output. For now, the system will solely and exclusively be serving audio over wired LAN to my SOtM SMS-200 Neo w/ battery power supply. Now, for the actual server, I'm hoping to set up an 8-bay chassis with an i7 7700k cpu and 16 gigs of ram. I will most likely need a SATA expansion card to support the increased number of storage bays, but that shouldn't be too bad to source. Would an OS like AudioLinux be okay to host this sort of storage setup while it runs roon server and hqplayer for me? Or will I have too much redundant re-set-up to perform every time AL is updated? As of right now, the only component I would need to purchase to make this happen is a chassis (like the Silverstone CS381B). I have tried AudioLinux and like it so far for its simplicity when serving music off of my SSD (haven't delved into RAMRoot or any other specific latency settings just yet). Will using AudioLinux on a roon/hqplayer server PC still make an audible difference? Will using AudioLinux on a non-hardware-optimized PC (No custom clocks, fna-enabled cooling, spinning hard disks, etc.) still make an audible difference over the network? Thanks for your time, Nelly- 18 replies
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After deciding that I probably do not need a NAS for my music library, I am planning to get a new external hard drive or two. That brings up the RAID or non-RAID question, so I want to make sure I am understanding this correctly. It seems like the only advantage of RAID (RAID 1, Drobo, etc.) for an external drive that will be used only to store my iTunes library would be storage capacity. Is that correct, or are there other benefits I'm forgetting? Since my music storage needs are nowhere close to 4TB (probably more like 1TB), it seems like I'd be better off skipping RAID for that drive. Assuming that RAID drives work well with Time Machine, I might consider one as a full system backup option at some point, but I probably don't need that much space now.