Paradox1553552678 Posted August 26, 2010 Posted August 26, 2010 Ernie;131384 wrote: Are you running Squeezecenter from the EasyStore? Yes - there's a WHS Squeezecenter version and it's easy to install and update. The EasyStore stays on 24/7 and I run both a SB3 and SB Touch off it. All the computers in the house now back up daily to the EasyStore. I've got 3 hard drives in the EasyStore, 2 in RAID array, and one that acts as an internal backup, plus it backs up to an external hard drive as well. Keep that data safe!
Flameboy1553552731 Posted August 26, 2010 Posted August 26, 2010 Ernie;131380 wrote: How big is your library, Mr FB? It's pretty large. Maybe 1500 albums in flac.
Ernie1553552694 Posted August 26, 2010 Posted August 26, 2010 Horses for courses. I'm not surprised that the NAS started choking...
Guest Posted August 26, 2010 Posted August 26, 2010 Seriously? So a large music collection (I have over 1600 albums) will choke a NAS? I would have thought that a NAS would come into its own with a large collection.
Ernie1553552694 Posted August 26, 2010 Posted August 26, 2010 You'd think so, but there are a new crop of hard disc appliances that have Intel Atom processors (or similar) onboard, like the one Paradox has. A step up from the bits of Linux kernel running on the boards of most NAS. Although the single core Atom processors prevalent in most of the first generation netbooks are limited in their capacity to do stuff. I couldn't run Google Earth on the one I have.
Electra Posted August 26, 2010 Posted August 26, 2010 Michael Jones;131446 wrote: Seriously? So a large music collection (I have over 1600 albums) will choke a NAS? I would have thought that a NAS would come into its own with a large collection. I think Michael that often the problem is with the memory available - my many thousand album collection choked on my PC server till I put in 4Gb ram. The Processor itself was not the limiting factor, the usage never got above about 15% doing anything.
nixon76 Posted August 27, 2010 Posted August 27, 2010 Ernie;131447 wrote: Although the single core Atom processors prevalent in most of the first generation netbooks are limited in their capacity to do stuff. I couldn't run Google Earth on the one I have. Has it made you want to throw it out the window yet?
jcooze Posted August 27, 2010 Posted August 27, 2010 Ernie;131474 wrote: It's actually quite robust. So you did throw it out the window but it survived the drop?
Ernie1553552694 Posted August 27, 2010 Posted August 27, 2010 Not quite that degree of frustration, it's fallen on the floor and been dragged around to no apparent damage.
Stuzzo1553552685 Posted August 27, 2010 Posted August 27, 2010 Maybe this is what you need http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/26/commodore-usa-announces-the-pc64-an-atom-powered-pc-in-a-replic/
Antipodes1553552706 Posted August 27, 2010 Posted August 27, 2010 too_tall;131456 wrote: I think Michael that often the problem is with the memory available - my many thousand album collection choked on my PC server till I put in 4Gb ram. The Processor itself was not the limiting factor, the usage never got above about 15% doing anything. So does that imply there is indexing that is kept in RAM? I wonder if turning the indexing off would result in any real problem....
damocles Posted August 27, 2010 Author Posted August 27, 2010 It looks like the ReadyNAS Ultra 4 uses an Atom processor. So this is one option I am looking at (my dealer can’t get Acer). It allows for quite a lot of storage
Paradox1553552678 Posted August 27, 2010 Posted August 27, 2010 too_tall;131456 wrote: I think Michael that often the problem is with the memory available - my many thousand album collection choked on my PC server till I put in 4Gb ram. Antipodes;131488 wrote: So does that imply there is indexing that is kept in RAM? I wonder if turning the indexing off would result in any real problem.... I'm not enough of a computer techie to know exactly what the problem with the ReadyNas is but it seems a bit of both. The ReadyNas seemed happy enough with small numbers of files but once I had a full library (~800 albums, ?400GB) it seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time re-indexing and looking for things and then freezing. It actually worked better running Squeezecenter off a PC but still accessing the flac files from the ReadyNas which suggests that at least some of the problem was the ReadyNas Squeezecenter implementation but even like that it was still slower than running both off a PC which implies to me it is both a software and hardware problem. Whereas the EasyStore works as well as a PC in my environment.
Ernie1553552694 Posted August 27, 2010 Posted August 27, 2010 Stuzzo;131484 wrote: Maybe this is what you need http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/26/commodore-usa-announces-the-pc64-an-atom-powered-pc-in-a-replic/ Yeah, my kids have gotten past using the munted keyboard as a make believe computer. They want the real thing. The Google Earth assignment was for my daughter's first computer assignment.
Electra Posted August 27, 2010 Posted August 27, 2010 Antipodes;131488 wrote: So does that imply there is indexing that is kept in RAM? I wonder if turning the indexing off would result in any real problem.... I assume so. There is a fair amount if data by the time you get tens of thousands of tracks stored. Maybe I am off track, but it sure _feels_ like an available ram issue when I have come across it. Most of us know just how much snappier a computer feels with 4GB of ram as opposed to 512Mb. A friend is building an atom music server at the moment, will be interesting to see how it handles a large music collection. He has 4Gb ram for it. But of course, the atom is not high powered at all. ( Pentium MMX class I believe? )
Ernie1553552694 Posted August 27, 2010 Posted August 27, 2010 The Atom was designed for low profile, cool running. It's no muscle chip, but is supposed to be Intel's next big little thing. Please keep us posted on your friends new system.
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