Michael Chare wrote:
"bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote in message
o.uk...
Signal wrote:

True, they could/should have fitted it with one of the widely
available 160 gig solid state drives which with the controller board
and **** would have cost them in the region of £300(ish) and would
have made it a more useful device and it would still be totally
silent. While not being 'cavernous' 160 gigs is useful storage even
for FLAC files. Whether the extra £300 would have made any difference
to it's sales is hard to judge. (For me anyway)


But then how do you get the music onto the SSD and how do you back it up?

The 'controller board and ****' (io interface, codecs, switchgear, sundry chips
etc. covered that). As for backup that could be through it's usb interface to an
external disk. Of course perhaps Naim didn't want to get involved in all of that
for space saving/general complexity reasons. We were merely making a general
observation that it would have been a much more desirable device if they had.

A NAS would cost you less money than that and if kept somewhere else,
noise issues can be avoided.

Indeed and that's the way the computer literate do/will go but I suppose that in
general they ain't Naim's target market.

But I quite like the idea of an SSD for a PC!


Me too but only when they get up to 1 Tb capacity for £300..or less. (couple of
years probably).

Signal wrote:
bcoombes bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote:

Signal wrote:

Sounds like a pretty cool device. Pity it doesn't have a hard drive,
but should be silent - a big plus.
True, they could/should have fitted it with one of the widely available 160 gig
solid state drives which with the controller board and **** would have cost them
in the region of £300(ish) and would have made it a more useful device and it
would still be totally silent.

I'm getting a hard on thinking about a solid-state audio server. ;-)

Yeah, join the club, but before I make a move the price of SSD's is gonna have
to come down a bit and unfortunately there's bit of a flash shortage in the
world at the moment.

On 08/01/2010 22:23, bcoombes wrote:
Signal wrote:
bcoombes bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote:

Signal wrote:

Sounds like a pretty cool device. Pity it doesn't have a hard drive,
but should be silent - a big plus.
True, they could/should have fitted it with one of the widely
available 160 gig solid state drives which with the controller board
and **** would have cost them in the region of £300(ish) and would
have made it a more useful device and it would still be totally silent.

I'm getting a hard on thinking about a solid-state audio server. ;-)

Yeah, join the club, but before I make a move the price of SSD's is
gonna have to come down a bit and unfortunately there's bit of a flash
shortage in the world at the moment.



+1 on the SSD prices atm and maybe I'm in no hurry to climb on board yet
myself 'til the technology has settled down, but they gotta be the way
to go...

Keith Garratt wrote:
On 08/01/2010 22:23, bcoombes wrote:
Signal wrote:
bcoombes bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote:

Signal wrote:

Sounds like a pretty cool device. Pity it doesn't have a hard drive,
but should be silent - a big plus.
True, they could/should have fitted it with one of the widely
available 160 gig solid state drives which with the controller board
and **** would have cost them in the region of £300(ish) and would
have made it a more useful device and it would still be totally silent.

I'm getting a hard on thinking about a solid-state audio server. ;-)

Yeah, join the club, but before I make a move the price of SSD's is
gonna have to come down a bit and unfortunately there's bit of a flash
shortage in the world at the moment.



+1 on the SSD prices atm and maybe I'm in no hurry to climb on board yet
myself 'til the technology has settled down, but they gotta be the way
to go...

Yup, absolutely no doubt about it, big SSD's and FLAC. (Sure makes sense to me
anyway.)