
Probably an FAO TerminalJunkie actually.
So I'm after buying a Sonos Music streaming setup. You connect a bridge to your wireless router, then wireless speakers. You point the bridge at some media somewhere, either a computer or more likely a NAS drive.
I'm looking for some advice as to the best way to set all this up. Having read the manuals and a few posts on their forums:
http://www.sonos.com/support/onlineuserguide/en/
http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=33468
Currently, I've got 2 music libraries. My "compressed" library which I sync to my phone and lives on my Mac Mini and my "uncompressed" library which sits on my external HDD. Use my external HDD for storage mostly, and as a backup for my Mac Mini - done manually, plug the HDD in when needed.
What I *think* I'm after, is too keep my "compressed" library on the Mac Mini, but move the "uncompressed" library onto a NAS drive. The library on the NAS drive then gets turned into an iTunes library and I just point the Sonos system at it, then that takes care of that. What I was wondering, was what sort of NAS I need, and should I then start looking into moving my backup off the external HDD and onto the NAS or what. The external HDD would serve no purpose if the uncompressed music lived on a NAS and the backup also lived on the NAS. But then that also raises questions like should I RAID the NAS so it mirrors to a backup... but then thats overkill and its still all held within the same unit.
There's also a question of size. With it being uncompressed its a large amount of music... or at least will grow to be. It's a 1TB drive with 700Gb free at the moment, which suggests my music could happily sit on a 1TB drive for quite a while longer - so do I get a NAS that has a built in drive, or one which I can swap out the drive when needed.
Never used a NAS before, so not sure how much I should be paying, how overkill I should go, what I need to look out for in terms of features (like spinning up only when needed, stuff like that). Any advice welcome & much appreciated!
So I'm after buying a Sonos Music streaming setup. You connect a bridge to your wireless router, then wireless speakers. You point the bridge at some media somewhere, either a computer or more likely a NAS drive.
I'm looking for some advice as to the best way to set all this up. Having read the manuals and a few posts on their forums:
http://www.sonos.com/support/onlineuserguide/en/
http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=33468
Currently, I've got 2 music libraries. My "compressed" library which I sync to my phone and lives on my Mac Mini and my "uncompressed" library which sits on my external HDD. Use my external HDD for storage mostly, and as a backup for my Mac Mini - done manually, plug the HDD in when needed.
What I *think* I'm after, is too keep my "compressed" library on the Mac Mini, but move the "uncompressed" library onto a NAS drive. The library on the NAS drive then gets turned into an iTunes library and I just point the Sonos system at it, then that takes care of that. What I was wondering, was what sort of NAS I need, and should I then start looking into moving my backup off the external HDD and onto the NAS or what. The external HDD would serve no purpose if the uncompressed music lived on a NAS and the backup also lived on the NAS. But then that also raises questions like should I RAID the NAS so it mirrors to a backup... but then thats overkill and its still all held within the same unit.
There's also a question of size. With it being uncompressed its a large amount of music... or at least will grow to be. It's a 1TB drive with 700Gb free at the moment, which suggests my music could happily sit on a 1TB drive for quite a while longer - so do I get a NAS that has a built in drive, or one which I can swap out the drive when needed.
Never used a NAS before, so not sure how much I should be paying, how overkill I should go, what I need to look out for in terms of features (like spinning up only when needed, stuff like that). Any advice welcome & much appreciated!