[henryisland]

Greetings,

I am looking for some advice.  I run most of my music as uncompressed .wav files using i-Tunes through a USB DAC (AudioNote 2.1 tube analogue).  This runs through a couple McIntosh amps to Vienna Acoustics and REL speakers and sounds lovely. 

I only have 2 TB of space on the server I am using, and it is full (RAID 5).  All files are backed up on a 4TB NAS.

My question is, can I just pull the 4 500GB hard drives, plug in 4 1TB drives, use i-tunes to import the .wav files from the NAS and be back in business, or is there some alchemy regarding the RAID that I am ignorant of?

Many thanks for your advice!

--henryisland

[EchiDna]

Welcome to Audio Circle

sorry to be the barer of bad news -  it *might* be possible to do what you suggest but probable that you can't...

what NAS is it? the software in the nas box will be the determining factor, some definitely do allow for disks to be replaced...

[henryisland]

Thanks EchiDna,

Actually the NAS is just for backup, the 2TB RAID5 setup is on the primary music server running XP, but I need to upgrade to Vista when I replace the 4x500GB with 4x1TB, and I am quite concerned that the USB playback with i-tunes will be detrimentally affected by Vista-i-tunes conflicts.  I don't use an i-pod with this system, so the well-known i-pod/Vista issues won't affect me.

I am now wondering if anyone has i-tunes playing .wav files to an external DAC through a USB output who can tell me if it is going to work.

Thanks for your help,

--henryisland