Server as a solution... help

Pete just pruchase a respectable streamer/server with inbuilt SSD and be done with it, you will thank me!

any suggestions as to what to look/research Tony? E mail if you prefer, you have my e mail?

Dave it would be about just over a year to listen . However I am still buying music on CD and in certain cases downloads when the CD prices get silly . I know that I will not be able to listen to everything I already own but it is like a disease I hear new music and have to then find it and buy it .

My mistake, I thought you had about  4TB of music,  which would take you much longer than a year to listen to at 5 albums per day.  Think we'll stick with the cheaper Qobuz option, and store on favourites.  

optical No you don't listen to your entire collection all the way through, and then start again. We would tend to listen to our favourite albums much more as you say. I thought Andrew had something like 4TB which is roughly 4 yrs worth of music at 5 albums per day, but in my case you could triple that since listening to favourites more often. Our Qobuz catalogue doesn't cost us any more than the monthly fees whether we have 100 or 1000 albums stored. I have nearly 1TB of stored files, even then there's albums I haven't listened to for years, music preferences changing with age. I should really go through and delete some, just too lazy. For the record I probably listen to 6hrs+ of music per day whilst in the uk, that figure decreases when I go abroad.

Edit.  My questioning Andrew's statement of buying as much SSD, as can be stored on the player, is because as I've said before, I don't like to see folks spend more than they have to.   

I don't know what a PB of music is Tony, guessing it's a lot. Even with my miniscule amount of stored files I'll still have enough to see me through those times when the internet goes down for a couple hours.  

I keep 4 & 8Tb SSD in spare Aurender drive caddy's use a usb 3 <> Sata cable and its ease to transfer music to a cleints new purchase, in my streamer I have two 8TB drives all full, and have six more to swap out depending on 'gig' or client. The main downlaoder/server/storage uses enterprise drives (warp drives yes really) blistering fast from high end server farms. All on custom power suppiles, iy just downloads music only totaly double air gapped and fire-walled. PC spots all of the items that makes sound listenable.

I genuinelly purchase maybe 200 albums a year, plus the music from the reocrding studios, mind you some albums have been PGGB'd so are 46GB each 

Must say we've listened to over 7hrs today, will finish in about 15 minutes, all full albums. Very rarely do we play a mixed playlist although Mark has about 15 on Roon.

I feel Pete just wants a upmarket NAS drive, I don't feel he wishes to entertain anything else really. He has a set methodology and he is happy with that solution for him.