Wednesday, October 26, 2011

NAS, USB and Wi-Fi

I’m putting up a longer entry on our Blogger site so I’ll be more concise here.

CD ripping can be slow, but nothing compared to the time it takes to get digital music files onto a NAS drive. So, if you’ve got a lot of music be prepared as it is likely to take many hours.

Remember that the published speed of your Wi-Fi was written by the marketing department, in real life data transfer rates are much, much slower. It simply isn’t worth the trouble to try to load a NAS drive over a wireless connection. Too slow, too prone to transmission breaks and you’ll be very unpopular with other network users who will think the internet has died.

Do it across ethernet cables connected to a router. Even consider buying a cheap router, it will save you many hours.

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