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sleask · 17-11-2013, 19:09

DavidHb, I don't know why either and i don't think we will find out, so i'll take your reason, lol, so i can drop this task of "why" and just start enjoying music again, as posted in the ps forum i did "temporarily" purchase the DS412+ for further testing, please forgive me but i'm just going to copy and paste, i'm exhausted after all the testing and thinking.
. As far as performance goes you don’t need the higher end models, I did compare the 213+ with the 412+, I did prefer the 213+ buy a margin but it could be a “break in” factor, the 412+ was newer. (I did run the unit hard for two hours before running the tests).
As far as raid goes, I have read many times not to run the ssd’s in raid, double the write times = half the life of the drive. Also, my buddy at the computer store said if you’re not running raid in the nas you can install any dive you want, the compatibility is only for the raid function. I have about 1000 albums all in flac, this is about 439gig, but, I’m sitting here thinking before I go buy a large ssd, do I really need the whole collection for serious listening? Not at all, I’m sure I won’t listen to 80% of it. BUT what if I rerip everything to wav, oh the pain, the biggest factor is I’m male and don’t think very rational so I will probably go for the 1 tb.

My conclusion is ,
Does the nas sound better than the pc, absolutely
Is the nas a cheaper route than a high end pc, absolutely
Do you need the top of the line model with all the power, “for audio”, absolutely not.

there is one other thread going at ps on this at http://www.psaudio.com/forum/#/discussio...s713-drive

just a note on the system resources, if you go into the process tab,and watch you will see that the process monitor itself is peaking upto 2.2% at times, i'm gessing it's java you want to watch, so the minim server is even lower than reported(the higher peaks)
Again great job Simon!
Linn_agnostik, thank you for the suggestion, i will try all the settings

steve