Thoughts on NAS versus USB/SSD storage?

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

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I don’t want to wade into some sort of debate here but I’m curious if anyone is suggesting to the original poster that they will experience a material improvement in performance or sound quality by moving from a NAS to a USB drive. I don’t think anyone has.

No it won’t, but smoother operation is nice too

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Using a NAS as networked storage, compared to an SSD inside Nucleus: it’s another device to manage and set up it’s another failure point in the system, far more likely to require repair or maintenance than a non-moving SSD network storage doesn’t auto-scan in all situations, and network storage is notoriously dependant on great networking NAS tend to be noisy (fans and spinning drives) and power hungry solutions (another cpu, etc…) While they do work, it is my opinion that a NAS is an inferi…