[miatadan]

I am getting second NAS unit just for music only, maybe I should get single drive QNap? as raid be waste of time if music library is still on Netgear NAS ( Red 3 Tb drive - 2 discs total Raid 1 )
If this logical thinking as SSD has no moving parts.

Only thing annoying is that you can not use Intel SSD toolbox software when intel ssd in NAS unit.

Dan

[BruceSB]

I have not actually started to rip my vinyl onto a computer as yet but I am doing a lot of preliminary investigating.
As I understand it the SSDs are said to give potentially better sound and it certainly makes sense to get a RAID backup for all the time spent building up your music collection.
The Mac mini seems to be a very popular computer to use as a music source and it has a SSD option.
One thing that I have picked up in my reading is that not all of the USBs are the same and you need to check and use the ones that are not in any ways shared by other things in the computer.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Bruce

[skunark]

RAID isn't a backup and should never be considered as such.    At most it increases the reliability of a drive (with exception of raid0), but doesn't protect against theft, fire, power surges, filesystem bugs, software bugs, user mistakes and even certain hardware failures.   

I would consider raid or raid like filesystem if you had enough music, media, etc that exceeds 4TB.

As for SSDs vs HDDs reliability, one would assume SSDs are more reliable with no moving parts, but there's enough studies done that contradicts that.   Tom's Hardware has a graph that shows HDDs and SSDs tend to have roughly the same failure rate the first two years, after that HDDs fail at a faster rate.   

And as for sound, only clear advantage for SSDs is that there's no platter spinning up to make noise or vibrations.   The data is the same either way, so for a NAS in another room, clearly HDD is the most economically sound choice. (and the pun too ).

Jim

[JerryLove]

For low-bandwidth storage like what is described: SSDs would be a generally poor match.

I agree that RAID is not a backup solution. Grab a cloud-based solution for this (since it's almost static once created and contains nothing you might consider private).

On the one hand I think "at most increases the reliability" is an understatement; but on the other hardware RAID creates a new single-point of failure. If the RAID controller itself were to fail, you may lose the entire array to an inability to exactly match it with a replacement.

So put a 3TB drive in an NAS connector, back it up, and be done with it. If it really bugs you, get a second 3GB enclosure and use something like Crashplan to backup from one to the other on schedule.