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seven-worlds-collide
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January 24, 2021
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NAS drives and what to buy?

  • January 24, 2021
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Hi, I have a huge collection of live music sitting on a standard hard drive (none of which is available to stream) and understand that I need a NAS drive to be able to play any of this through Sonos. 
unfortunately, that’s where my knowledge stops… could I please have some recommendations as to what to buy, makes and model numbers etc that are known to work. I’ve done a little research, but I’m more confused than when I started looking. 
I have a very basic knowledge of computing, but can usually get things working if I have the right equipment and software. Sorry if the question has been answered many times before, but there is lots on information online which is too complicated for me to grasp...

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Best answer by ratty

How much music (in GB)? And does your router have a USB port, with the ability to share storage onto the network?

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seven-worlds-collideAuthor
Avid Contributor I
January 24, 2021

Thank you ratty, you’ve been a brilliant help today and I’m sure they are very wise words… I’m not sure how, but I’ve managed to find the flash drive and finally managed to play a track from it about 15 minutes ago… now I need to find an SSD big enough, I note your words around the spinning of hard drives. 
Really do appreciate your perseverance with me, thanks again

ratty
ratty
January 24, 2021

If you really have 3-4TB of MP3s, be mindful of @106rallye’s comments. Sonos has a hard limit of 65k tracks in its local library, and this can be reduced depending on the size of the metadata (tags) and also the filename lengths. This is due to a memory limitation from the early days.

There is an alternative in the form of the Plex server, which would run on many NASes.

And 4TB of SSD could be quite pricey. Frankly with storage at that scale I’d be looking at a conventional HDD NAS rather than a disk hung off the router.

seven-worlds-collideAuthor
Avid Contributor I
January 24, 2021

….perhaps a good time to be trimming it down a little…

thanks everyone 

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