cheapest/best NAS drive for itunes/sonos

[paultownsend]

a contradiction i know!

i have recently converted to sonos and im loving the experience.
my itunes library (90g's worth) is all stored on an external seagate 500mb drive. connected to my samsung nc10 notebook.

the issue is, every thime i disconnect the hard drive, then plug it back in, sonos cant find the files, and i have to re-attatch the routed files. takes ages!

so, i was looking at nas drives. but looking at amazon, they all have eccellent, and terrible reliability reviews. buffalo, seagate, wd. all of them. can i back up all files (and its only music files) on my old seagate just incase the new drive fails?

also, as said, theres nothing wrong with my seagate. its 4 years old and functioning perfectly. i was in maplin, and im sure a guy pointed out a device that connects my router and existing drive that permanently connects it to the network?

help is happily received

[paultownsend]

http://www.lambda-tek.com/componentshop/index.pl?p...

anything wrong with this one? semms a good price

[paultownsend]

you were correct. over my head!

my files are never going to exceed 250 gig. and il only be transfering music files. probs never movies or pictures.

i need it purely for my itunes/sonos and the files aren't even in lossless format. so cheaper and easier to use the better! which the above buffalo seems to be.

[paultownsend]

thank you ehonda.

do you know if the nas can connect directly to the sonos zonebridge via ethernet? my bt homehub had ran out of ports

Edited by paultownsend on Friday 25th February 11:21

[paultownsend]

how easy is a nas to set up. is it as simpke as plug into the router, my computer sees it on the network, and i set the route path through sonos?

60gig of music seems alot of info to move from my current hard drive in one go. can i move the files hard wired from usb, or does it all have to be done over the network?