What Nas drive will continue to support S1? (after WD has withdrawn support)

Me again, Or woukd the Synology Diskstation DS120j Ethernet LAN Tower Grey NAS be an option ((()

I use a S1 system and 5 plus year old WD My Cloud for a NAS, though that is not used as often these days because I stream my music from the net.

I would wait to make sure that the music from the WD actually stops playing before rushing to make any changes!

There may be a MyCloud option to suppress future updates.

I use Synology and, at least for now, there is an SMBV1 option that can be selected.

Many thanks Buzz!

Ill check out Synololgy  What nas do you have?  Will it support 250 music tracks?

My worry is that enquiring from them whether they’re continuing to support S1 might contribute to their realisation that they should let it go!

But again thanks

Peter 

A Diskstation DS120j will have plenty of capacity for your music. Usually they are sold without a drive installed. Drives are inexpensive these days. It’s hard to find a current drive smaller than 2TB. A 4TB drive is very practical and less than $100. If you are a performance freak go for a 7200RPM drive, but SONOS music play will be fine with a 5400RPM drive.

The track limit is a SONOS limit at 65,000. SONOS does not care about track size only the track count. A typical FLAC encoded album could require 300-400MB, but this varies wildly. Older pop LPs might require only 45min on a CD, while a classical CD could be close to 80min.

Thaks for the reply Kumar.

I stopped using my old My Cloud after they warned that it could just crash and I’d lose my material.

I’m tempted to revive it and use it instead of my My Cloud Home, until it does die!

Does that sound sensible?  The problem is where to keep the keep any new tracks which I’ll need to add to the new machine.

Maybe simpler to just buy one of the systens suggested: Buzz’s Dickstation DS12j (though it doesnt have a hard drive)?

Thanks again,

Peter      

SEAGATE NAS???    

A FOLLOW UP QUESTION ON NAS DRIVES…

Buzz recommended 7200 RPM, which this Seagate has.

Someone at Sonos told me that Seagate are popular with Sonos users.  Anyone recommend this for my many music tracks, to work with Sonos S1? 

Seagate IronWolf 8 TB NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6 GB/s 7200 RPM 256 MB Cache for RAID Network Attached Storage, 3 Years Data Recovery – Frustration Free Packaging (ST8000VNZ04)

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£178.99£ was £224.90

In my experience the IronWolf is fine. If you will be using this drive for system backup, consider a two bay shell. You can configure the shell to duplicate the files on both drives and thus survive a single drive failure. (Think of a hard drive as an already cracked egg -- eventually it will fail)

From day one, I have kept my 15000 or so songs on a standard hard disc drive - two of them actually for triple redundancy, but have never needed that; the old My Cloud still works just fine.

Also, I don’t understand what S1 and S2 has to do with all this!

There is a protocol that must be used when communicating with an NAS drive over the network. The original SMBv1 protocol has some serious security issues. The newer SMBv2 and SMBv3 protocols fix this. Unfortunately, older S1 only SONOS units don’t have enough RAM to upgrade to SMBv2 or SMBv3. Drive manufacturers are either attempting to demonstrate “responsibility” or minimize support costs by dropping SMBv1 support. Operating systems are also making things difficult for SMBv1 users.