Which NAS should I choose?

[preston8452]

Hi guys,


It's just sorta a general wondering, so recently I've been thinking about purchasing a NAS for audio storage and stuff, I used to just simply store music with USB, but I read some articles about NAS, it seems to me that most audiophiles possess one to cooperate with their Hi-Fi gear at home, so maybe it does help further improve the sound quality(?


As you all may know, there are several brands of NAS out there, which one is the best fit for me as a NAS newbie haha? Synology and QNAP are quite popular I suppose, but what about others, what's the difference?


If you can also kindly share what's your system(like what device you use to connect to NAS) with me, that'd certainly be a great reference to me then.


Best,

[SKY1950]

Hi preston8452, I have used a QnapTS-251+2 for a couple of years, it has 2 x 2 Tb hard drives, this holds my Flac music files, which I stream to a Linn Majik DSM controlled by the Linn app on my iPhone, it works very well with album art and tags mostly ripped CD's on DB Power Amp with some Hi Res files from Qobuz, it auto configures a raid group which stores a mirror copy so no loss if a hard drives fails, it has loads of apps for images/video/music, but I just use with Linn Kazoo and Asset which I control with my phone, I'm not a techy but it works great for my HI Fi
Steve

[preston8452]

Thanks for sharing pal, that sounds really nice, I'd certainly consider that!