Recommendations for a SSD NAS for Sonos S2

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July 19, 2024
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I am hit with the 913 error using a ReadyNas Duo v1, I gather because it uses SMB v1!. It seems I will have to buy a new NAS and move my music library over to it. Thank you Sonos.

I started to research which NAS to buy thinking it would be nice to use a SSD, lower power consumption and maybe quieter running. It appears however that 99.99% of NAS drives are sold with hard disks, in fact I could not find any that are shipped with SSDs already installed. The drive would be used only for my music library, so write once when a new album is loaded and ready many times playing the music.

Would be grateful for any recommendation for a SSD NAS for a music library and any thoughts as to why these are not more readily available. I am not overly techy so I do not want to build one just buy one.

Pleased to see Sonos share price is dropping, perhaps that might get the attention of the Owners who seem to be oblivious of the carnage they have created with this update.

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Stanley_4

Grand Maestro

I love my Raspberry Pi and SSD NAS, dirt cheap and so far completely reliable, so if you decide building is an option keep it in mind.

You could also use a Pi as an SMB gateway to your real NAS, even cheaper.

Just tweak the instructions to disable SMB v1.

SMB v1 NAS for Sonos https://stan-miller.livejournal.com/650.html

SMB v1 Gateway https://stan-miller.livejournal.com/357.html

buzz

Grand Maestro

For a while I struggled with an older Buffalo NAS and was getting nowhere. All I wanted to do was backup the data. The drive is being used for an S1 system that will never be updated. I was getting nowhere until I installed the SMBv1 driver on my W10 system. Then I was able to copy the files.

Overall, I like the Synology drives. I suggest avoiding the Western Digital Cloud drives.

sigh

Prodigy II

Would be grateful for any recommendation for a SSD NAS for a music library and any thoughts as to why these are not more readily available. I am not overly techy so I do not want to build one just buy one.

In general a NAS is used for high capacity storage and cost per GB hard drives are far more cost effective.

Currently a 14TB Hard drive is ~£210, 4TB ~£70-75, 2TB ~£35

With SSD 4TB start at ~£200 and rapidly go up, 2TB drives which are generally the best price per GB are closer to £100

The primary benefit of SSD and NVME drives is speed of access, both of which are irrelevant for a typical home network as the network is the bottleneck and maxes out transfer speed long before spinning hard drives reach max read/write limits, nevermind the faster SSDs.

SSD’s make little sense in the price sensitive home NAS market currently due to the high cost of the storage devices.

Stanley_4

Grand Maestro

Getting fancy can be expensive but for a Sonos music library server you can get by with a Pi Zero, a $10 USB to SATA cable and an old SSD removed from another system when it was upgraded. The SSD needn’t be big as you hit the file limit before you’d fill up most SSDs.

K

KLOAuthor

Contributor I

Thanks all for the replies, but still left with the question as to why nobody ships a NAS with SSD’s fitted.

I am looking for a quick, turnkey solution so won’t be going down the ‘ build one’ route, but appreciate the thought.

I have run hard disk NASs for many years and had to replace hard disks from time to time, my understanding is that an SSD solution will last longer and within reason this is not a cost issue. In fact, over time, IF SSDs have a longer life it may even be cheaper.

Stanley_4

Grand Maestro

You could always buy a naked (no disks) nas and add your own drives, just make sure the nas to disk interface is what you are expecting.

The why question always has the same answer, nobody thinks they would make money selling one. Maybe look for a niche offering from a boutique vendor?

K

KLOAuthor

Contributor I

Thanks Stanley, yes I am headed in that direction, I costed a 2x 2Tbyte SSD Synology DS223j NAS at £429 , a lot of money I know. Point noted about the correct interface.

Not sure why they think they wouldn’t make money they sell both separately.

Oh Mr Spence thinks they shipped the new app with bugs, no, they defeatured it, then added the bugs, bet the drop in share price got his attention. Tosser!