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https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/diy-tv-repairs.310070/

if you need anyhelp putting the hardware together @DaveReading is your man...

 

[nogoodnamesleft]

One thing worried me about a NAS, which I have somewhat looked into. As I understand it the disc handling for the various RAID options are proprietary. This is fine if disc fails, in which case you bung in anothet and it all synchs up and all is well. Problem is if the box itself goes wrong, you can't necessarily just bung your discs in another NAS unit. With this in mind a disc in my PC made shareable on my LAN, with conventional USB backups would be a safer bet

Does this depend on the level of RAID you apply.Noting also that certainly some NASs have options on disk format used eg (from memory) my Synology allows either their own proprietary format or ext4. I opted for their proprietary as they are widespread plus I actually have two so if one went bang I have the other ...

From memory when I initially set mine up I was not obliged to use RAID and went for RAID 0 (striping) ie speed not redundancy as I have other backups of the data.

 

[markemark]

RAID does not provide backup but redundancy against harddrive failure.

 

[winjim]

It costs nothing, just as Google music cost nothing. It's all my albums uploaded to the YouTube cloud servers, so no adverts etc

This is looking like the simplest option right now. Just started uploading and I can see it's going to be a metadata nightmare. One track labelled differently and the album cover hasn't embedded. I thought I'd sorted it when I ripped it all. Time to make a cup of tea and start working through things methodically. Could take a while...

 

[ianrauk]

This is looking like the simplest option right now. Just started uploading and I can see it's going to be a metadata nightmare. One track labelled differently and the album cover hasn't embedded. I thought I'd sorted it when I ripped it all. Time to make a cup of tea and start working through things methodically. Could take a while...

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Yes, there can be and are a few crappy anomalies in my collection which is a pain. When it was Google Music you could change, you can't seem to on YouTube music. But like you, I have a massive collection, so for the most part, it works well.

 

[winjim]

Yes, there can be and are a few crappy anomalies in my collection which is a pain. When it was Google Music you could change, you can't seem to on YouTube music. But like you, I have a massive collection, so for the most part, it works well.

If I check through it an album at a time, it'll probably remind me to listen to some of my old stuff, which is good.

 

[nogoodnamesleft]

RAID does not provide backup but redundancy against harddrive failure.

If you were talking about my saying "... as I have other backups of the data" I was commenting that I have other backups of the data thus if a disk goes "bang" it's not such a big deal. ie depending on circumstances, multiple backups on different devices can mean reliability of any one device is less of an issue.

Not OPs question but with "backups" I try to guard against many different risks and disk failure is only one eg house fire of theft and it doesn't matter how reliable your disks are, lose the NAS and the data are gone. Hence I also have multiple devices at multiple locations.

 

[ianrauk]

If I check through it an album at a time, it'll probably remind me to listen to some of my old stuff, which is good.

yep.

I think what I need to do for the albums/songs/artists that do have anomalies is to delete from the app, re-rip and change the metadata before re-uploading.

 

[CXRAndy]

You probably need a NAS. Depending on how much you want to store and how many drives in raid configuration, will determine costs.