Melco Audiophile NAS

[dan46]

(28-02-2016 00:10)lyapounov Wrote:  

(12-02-2016 21:09)simoncn Wrote:  

(12-02-2016 17:20)malkit Wrote:  Hello Simon.
Another new N1A owner here, would you please be kind enough to pm the instructions for installing MinimServer?

I will.

Quote:I also have a question for you. I'm deciding atm how I'm going to set up the Melco I was planning to use it in raid1 configuration but I noted another user a few pages back stating that both he and you felt the N1A sounded best configured as a spanned array.
My question is if this is truely your opinion and if so was the comparison done using N1A as a renderer, nas or both?
Many thanks in advance.
Matthew

I didn't do a direct comparison myself but from offline conversations with the other user together with my own experiences I am convinced that the sound is better with a spanned array. It should be fairly easy for you to do a comparison yourself to check whether you agree wth this. The N1A was used as a NAS with a Linn KDS or KDSM connected to the N1A's player port.

In that case, you do not have any more redundancy. As the AFR (Annual Failure Rate) of HD is not zero, the probability you loose data is not zero as well... I had a look at the N1A user's guide, they don't mention how you can replace HD. I feel safer (maybe wrongly ?) with my Synology in RAID mode...

Another thread online the poster swapped out to 2 x 4TB HDD drives and had no problem in the N1A. They displayed as 8TB in the front panel and as storage, next is SSD swap out as a test.