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Help to store hi-rez on external hard drive.

Hello. I am an old time audiophile and not to digital savy. I was wondering if anyone might share how to store downloaded hi-rez digital on external hard drive and configure it to be the source and deliver its content to the dac?, from there I think I got it. I don't think I want a computer over by my system so I thought just a hard drive would nice and small and neat, but I don't know if it is possible to do that. Thanks for any input. Have a great day.
marqmike

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prpixel
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SB Touch runs a stripped down version of the server software. No way can it handle a RAID array.
prpixel
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What I mean is the SB Touch doesn't have the horse power to manage a large library. If the library gets too big the searches and indexing just time out. I have a touch here and the plan was to just plug in a usb drive and use it as both a playback device and a server for the rest of my Squeezeboxes. I plugged in a 1TB drive with about 2600 CD's (26000 tracks) ripped to it and it could not index it. The built in server can only handle a couple of hundred CD's before the indexing and searches get too slow. Even scrolling through your collection becomes unbearably slow.

The idea behind the built in server was for people with smaller libraries (<100 cd's) to be able to stick them on a thumb drive and have a standalone server/player. Or for your friend to be able to bring over some tunes on a thumb drive for a listening session. If you check out the squeezebox forums, you'll find a lot of discussions on the capabilities of the built in server.
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