Help to store hi-rez on external hard drive.

Thanks for your help. I going out soon with your suggestings and I will get a new notebook with as clean a slate as I can then come home a get media monkey on there. I read in computer audiophile to cut out the mixer or something like that, so I will probably go over to there and put together any suggestions on set up and using media monkey with my notebook. I just thought I would warn you guys just in case this side of the country disapears because of something I connect wrong. Thank you everyone.

Wouldn't the best solution for you be this?

1) Rip your music to your PC using EAC with the FLAC add on
2) Save the files on a RAID 1 configured USB hard drive with 2 ITB modules
3) When done putting your music on the HD, connect it to a Logitech Touch for the interfacr control
4) Run the output of the Touch to your DAC

In this way you aren't using any PC except for the initial rip, the RAID 1 has built-in back up in case one of the drives crashes, and you can move the HD from wherever your PC is to where you listen to music and all you have there is the HD, the Touch, and your DAC.

I dunno' seems way better than messing around with a laptop and a bunch of other crap.

SB Touch runs a stripped down version of the server software. No way can it handle a RAID array.

Big bucks5 thanks that is what I was hoping to do keep it simple over by the sound system and off a computer after downloading. Why? It just sound good and simple. I am not very sharp with computer stuff. Prpixel thanks for the help before I took that step. I went out this afternoon and looked for a computer/laptop to dedicate music to and then I started thinking about and got caught up in all the little things and I didn,t get one yet. Ineed some time to figure it out. Everybody I talk to at the stores has different ideas and really doesn't know much about what I am trying to do. But other than that their nice and try to be helpful. Thanks again. Enjoy your music.

I have no idea what Prpixel is talking about. The Touch interfaces with a USB drive. A USB RAID 1 configured HD is a still a USB drive. From an external point of view, the Touch has no idea if the HS is RAID 1 or not. You can always pull one of the drives out if there was some kind of issue, and then reinsert it to mirror the drive inside the case when you add more music.

Get yourself a LaCie 2 Big USB HD with 2 1TB drives configured as a mirror array and a Logitech Touch. I think that's all you need (plus your DAC).