Minim server + Synology NAS kills custom dedicated pc on music sound quality

[simoncn]

(20-11-2013 02:35)sleask Wrote:  UPDATE, the different brands of SSD's sound different, samsung evo and pro not as good, i'm testing intel now. this is disappointing but i suspected it at the start. the last firmware update for the samsungs is this; - Optimized the noise immunity across the internal memory interfaces, anybody translate this for me? to me noise and memory= not good i have a few people working on the specs between drives at the computer store

I'm finding this very interesting. Please continue to post the results of your testing.

If different SSDs on the server are producing different sound quality on the renderer, I think this suggests there is some issue with interactions between the networking side of the renderer and its audio side.

In more detail: The audio side of the renderer should be completely isolated from its networking side. When a different disk is used on the server, this might cause some difference on the networking side, such as the exact timing of TCP/IP messages. If this networking difference makes a difference to the audio sound quality, this seems to indicate that the renderer's audio side is not completely isolated from its networking side.