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RE: Exactly what I presented - the relevant one

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In Reply to: RE: Exactly what I presented - the relevant one posted by E-Stat on August 07, 2024 at 12:29:39

"The context of this discussion is random. "
I thought it was about playing music from NAS. But for the sake of this "random" discussion I can "randomly" choose any album or track from my lowly HDD based NAS and it plays immediately. I can put the music on "random play" and whatever it lands on plays immediately. I see no need for SSDs given that my HDD based setup is "randomly" lightning fast ;-)

Edits: 08/07/24

Follow Ups:

You don't seem - E-Stat 17:23:37 08/07/24 (6)
to pay close attention.

I thought it was about playing music from NAS.

Let's return here for the observation that triggered your knee jerk response:

Quicker random track access is a beautiful thing. :)

After much obfuscation of the issues involved, I needed to repeat the topic under discussion:

In the manner I've described, yes.

Have a good day!
- Is your setup flawed ? - AbeCollins 07:51:49 08/08/24 (5)
  You seem to be hung up on "quicker track access" or "quicker random access" with LMS. If SSD's do indeed make that much of a improvement over HDD's with your LMS setup I would have to conclude that your LMS setup or LMS itself is flawed.
  Like I said earlier, my track and random access playback both happen immediately with zero perceptible delay with my lowly slow 5400 rpm HDD's. No need for SSDs in my NAS for music playback.
  
  Edits: 08/08/24
  - Your confrontational demeanor - E-Stat 14:49:30 08/08/24 (0)
    lacking any manner of perspective is comical. It embodies all the stereotypes you hear about social media. :)
    
    " Martha, there's a guy on the internet I must correct immediately"
    
    Just too funny!
  - RE: Is your setup flawed ? - Lman 12:38:13 08/08/24 (3)
    I am currently running a QNAP box and a TrueNAS box, both having 12TB of mirrored storage space and both are connected via Ethernet. Any issues I've had pertaining to transfer speed were due to LAN performance. Once I replaced a slow switch and an inferior cable my transfer speeds increased dramatically.
    
    I just upgraded to 2.5GB and it's a noticeable improvement. I put a 2.5gb adapter in the TrueNAS box and used port trunking on the QNAP box to try and gain some speed there.
    
    I use Audirvana for music playback and have really never noticed any lag using OS X or Windows.
    - RE: Is your setup flawed ? - AbeCollins 20:43:19 08/08/24 (2)
      I've never played with TrueNAS but had some ZFS experience before I retired.
      I can do link aggregation on my Synology NAS but I can't do it with my cheapie unmanaged Gigabit switches so the 1-Gigabit limit will still be there. A 10-Gigabit switch would be nice but those are still rather pricey. I haven't looked into 2.5 Gigabit switches. Maybe I should.
      The most I can get on large sustained backups or transfers is about 100 MB/Sec or so (+/-) which is consistent with the limitations of a 1-Gigabit network.
      Music playback with the current NAS setup has no noticeable I/O latency or bandwidth issues. It's never been an issue and it is certainly not bound by HDD IOPs. Music playback doesn't require much.
      
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      - RE: Is your setup flawed ? - Lman 09:15:58 08/12/24 (1)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Is your setup flawed ? posted by AbeCollins on August 08, 2024 at 20:43:19
        
        "Music playback with the current NAS setup has no noticeable I/O latency or bandwidth issues. It's never been an issue and it is certainly not bound by HDD IOPs. Music playback doesn't require much."
        
        True. I upgraded to 2.5gbps only because I tend to move large files across boxes. I have seen transfers hit 2.5 and it is pretty sweet.
        
        RE: Is your setup flawed ? - AbeCollins 10:50:13 08/12/24 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Is your setup flawed ? posted by Lman on August 12, 2024 at 09:15:58
        
        Agree. Any motivation for me to upgrade to 2.5 Gbs (or even 10Gbs someday!) would be for backup speed and large transfers over the network.

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