I’m not really a technical person so the simpler the better as long as it does the job. Or are there real advantages (other than leaving the system on 24/7) to moving to a NAS and/or Raspberry Pi set up for media serving via LMS and Plex? (FYI, I have built and used a RPi a few years ago for a couple of months for one-off reasons, so do know the basic rudiments of RPi plus Max2play).īasically, I’m asking can I just stick with the structure of what I’ve got now or are there compelling reasons for me (given my rather uncomplicated needs) to change one of the more complex streaming set ups that proliferate here. I’m just wondering if it’s still the best option for my needs to use the new PC as the storage and streaming device as well as for general computing tasks. But it’s getting long in the tooth and I’m soon going to upgrade it to a current model PC (Intel 8700 processor etc).

My current home computer is fairly powerful, used for all my home and work computing tasks and has tons of storage (plus I can always fill the numerous disk bays with larger HDDs as time goes by). I turn the computer off every night since sleep/hibernation mode is a bit dicey.

I have about 1.3TB of lossless classical music files and 4TB of film/TV and growing (mainly kids stuff). In addition, I’ve recently started to stream my visual media files stored on my PC via Plex. I have a decent mesh Wi-Fi set up so I can steam easily throughout my apartment. I’m a long time user of LMS (10 years) and have always just kept my files on my Windows 7 PC and streamed the music from there to my various Squeezeboxes.

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