Need advice on what to purchase to hold 1TB of music and connect to my new Innuos Pulsar.
I just need 1TB of file space and won’t ever need more. I am most interested in sound quality and staying under $500. The less money the better - if possible. It will be hooked up to an Innuos Pulsar that has no internal storage. The Pulsar is streamer only. My music, only 1100 CDs, is already stored on a Raid and I will only use this Raid for backup.
No idea what I need. Don’t think I need a NAS, but may. Do I just buy a 1TB SSD drive? Which one? Connectivity? This is not an area I am well versed on as in the past I have always owned servers which had on board storage ( Innuos Zenith 3).
I am a little lost here fellow Agoners. Thanks for your help. Bill
I don’t see me ripping anymore CDs or buying music files in the future. Since I have 1100 CDs ripped only using some 60% of 1TB, it seems reasonable to buy a 1TB. I will look at 2Tb since it is only a little more money 🙂.
My Raid is simply two HDD drives storing my music. The second redundant drive is a backup in case the first one fails. No ethernet connection so won’t work with the Pulsar. I purchased this for backup only, not intended for daily use. |
Tbe Samsung SSD drive cost me $69 and if direct connectivity was allowed that would be my cost. Nice. A NAS will cost me at least $300-$400 and many cost upwards of $600-$700. In addition, I will need to buy an LPS to power it if I want the best performance. So much added cost and complexity compared to a simple direct USB thumb drive or SSD. Am I missing something here? Learning fast now 😬. Love to see links for a 1-2Tb NAS in the $200 range. Is this possible for a good one? I did contact Innuos and shared my disappointment in a constructive manner. |
@grannyring : I hear you. I am perhaps biased myself as I already have two NAS devices, with redundant storages, which honestly don’t currently use for streaming audio, just for back up. I use them for file storage in my house, including family photos, video files, documents and so on. So general use, not exclusively audio.
Maybe those simple WD My Book or My Cloud NASs? They carry them at Best Buy (I think), or they used to.
Actually I looked them up: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-my-cloud-home-4tb-personal-cloud-white/5990204.p?skuId=5990204
But granted, I don’t know if they work with Innuos. So do your own due diligence.
Good! You are right, such added functionality should have been easy to incorporate
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@grannyring I’m not 100% certain but you might be able to configure Innuous to read that Samsung SSD when it’s connected to a computer on the same network same way you would configure it to read NAS. I did this when I had Auralic Aries G1 and it was reading the external drive connected to my mac mini. |
Innous appears to have the ability to play files that are on a USB drive installed in a networked computer. The trick is to get the music folder on the USB drive configured as a shared folder. For me, it was easy to set that up on a MAC and a pain to get that working reliably on a PC. If you have a desktop computer, you could add an SSD hard drive to it and you could easily set up a shared music folder and you would be set up. In is inexcusable that Innous sells a high end streamer with USB ports and none of them can be utilized to play music from USB devices. |
