NAS and Minimserver

[Jamesroy]

Do I need a NAS and Minimserver

My setup:

Mac Book Pro 2013 with HI Sierra 10.13.6   2.4 GHz Intel Core

8GB Ram 250 GB SSD Internal drive
External 4TB WD HD with only Music 1,130 Albums

Thunderbolt To cat-6 Ethernet to Old Netgear router, Cat7 ethernet to Micro Rendu,  Cables used Oyaide neo d+ Class A USB 2.0, Stellar Gain Cell DAC-Micro Rendu with latest Upgrade to make it close to Ultra Rendu
LPS-1 Power Supply-Grounded Cable, XLR cables to PS Audio M700 Mono Blocks 350 into 8Ω
Paradigm Studio 100v.3 series speakers BiWired 8Ω Spiked

Audio Software Audirvana+  latest version 3.5.11

[stefano_mbp]

10 hours ago, Jamesroy said:

Do I need a NAS and Minimserver

My setup:

Mac Book Pro 2013 with HI Sierra 10.13.6   2.4 GHz Intel Core

8GB Ram 250 GB SSD Internal drive
External 4TB WD HD with only Music 1,130 Albums

Thunderbolt To cat-6 Ethernet to Old Netgear router, Cat7 ethernet to Micro Rendu,  Cables used Oyaide neo d+ Class A USB 2.0, Stellar Gain Cell DAC-Micro Rendu with latest Upgrade to make it close to Ultra Rendu
LPS-1 Power Supply-Grounded Cable, XLR cables to PS Audio M700 Mono Blocks 350 into 8Ω
Paradigm Studio 100v.3 series speakers BiWired 8Ω Spiked

Audio Software Audirvana+  latest version 3.5.11

Using Audirvana MinimServer is useless as Audirvana cannot use it

A nas should be useful to share over the network your folders to feed streamers or other workstations and this do not seem to be your case (supposing you are using microRendu as upnp device for Audirvana) .... anyway I recommend to backup your external hdd 

[Jamesroy]

I do backup my HD and don't think I use MicroRendu as upnp since I don't know what that is.

[stefano_mbp]

29 minutes ago, Jamesroy said:

I do backup my HD and don't think I use MicroRendu as upnp since I don't know what that is.

If you are using MicroRendu with Audirvana then you are using it as an upnp device

[Jamesroy]

Thanks