Melco Audiophile NAS

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(14-06-2020 10:20)simoncn Wrote:  1) SSD, Crucial MX500. Not all SSDs sound good; some sound worse than HDD. It depends on the controller. I purchased my N1A and N1Z with HDDs fitted and changed them to SSDs myself. Make sure you format the drives as spanned (not RAID 0).

2) This is easy to do on MinimServer 2 using profile export and import.

3) Your assumptions are correct.

4) The N1Z is better but a lot more expensive. I use an N1A for serving and an N1Z for rendering. As you are using your LUMIN for rendering, you might be OK with an N1A for serving. Can you try both models on home demo before you decide? You could buy an N1A and spend the price difference on a Melco S100 switch. For serving, this combination might sound better than an N1Z.

Thank you very much.
Unfortunately a home demo may be difficult. But I agree that a N1A plus S100 combo might do nicely for me.

Also which connections in this configuration would most benefit from higher quality Ethernet connections ー　and do you have a preferred cable?

Would an sbooster-like device help here? It made a staggering improvement on my lumin t2

One last question - the quoted disk capacity is raid1 mode or spanned? That is - the N1A 2TB ssd - is this two 1tb drives? I ask because in the specs it seems like it might just be one 2tb drive. Which would leave a bay empty ?