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Where do you usually shop for your IT-hardware online? Best price I found online for two 3TB Western Digital Red drives = R3 462-00. Pity there is only a few hours left on this Takealot deal. This Western My Cloud EX2 has only two USB3 outputs. Surely this means I will have to get an...

WD My Cloud EX2 review

That is a very good deal indeed, Kamikazi. Thank you for finding it- and for posting the link. If you (or anybody else) would, please comment on where you see the shortcomings in this NAS? It seems shy on the memory side with a scrimpy 512MB. The CPU might just suffice. I am worried that this...

Wolvebain, thank you for pointing out the pitfalls, for the links supplied and for the solutions you have offered. There is much for me to digest in this thread. Some of the technology mentioned here are totally strange to me, which complicates drawing the proper conclusions about the...

@Wolvebain: You said: "If you do go the mini-pc streaming receiver route, suggest getting a USB hub with an Ethernet port". Is USB2 ample for the purpose? Should I not rather consider a USB3/RJ45 hub?

@ Kamikazi & Wolvebain: I can summarise by saying that I am restrained by logistics, and physical layout, to strictly follow your recommendations. For instance, three PC's and the audio system share same room, with little chance of that changing. The room it shares, is fairly large. I could...

Given the standard, entry-level HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 Entry - Celeron G1610T 2.3 GHz - 4 GB RAM, how would you equip it (other than 2 x HDD) and set it up, to perform the following functions: 1. Data backup device for a Windows 7/10 PC. 2. Local network media streamer (analogue audio...

Thank you, everyone, for your esteemed contribution to this discussion. It yielded a number of different approaches, some of which I had been quite unaware of before.

Thank you, Wolvebain. Please allow me a few more questions. When you say: "The Windows 10 OS itself is running of the internal USB port, to a 64GB MLC SSD currently....", does it mean that you cannot boot from the SSD direct? Otherwise why would you boot Windows from the internal USB-drive...

Thanks for sharing your HP ProLiant G8 micro-server setup and practical results, Wolvebain. It looks very, very  promising. Do you use the G8 mainly as a backup, a media center or in another role perhaps? Are you running everything off Windows 10 installed on a drive in the G8 or from somewhere...

I just found this at HP-Online: HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 Entry. Comments?

Thank you, Kamikazi.

Where is best to buy the HP ProLiant G8 microservers?

Juggy, did you upgrade your G8 from the standard specs later, or did you get yours prefitted like that? Model number?

Good reviews for the G8 too. Two cons are mentioned, though: it is noisy and no hot-swapping of disks. The latter may not be much of an issue, but the first might be. Budget estimate? Supplier?

If the UFO doesn't fly, I will ask for a refund :) Local pricing vary wildly. Any idea where I can go shopping for one? Best price I found so far.

I already own two turntables, one of which is a Project Debut II I had used to digitize some of my old records nearly a decade ago. Although it was then boxed and stored, it can be recalled for duty- no USB though. I am considering using this UFO as solution: See here and here.

@naughty: Primary objective: to get music into my dated analogue sound system pre-amp, plus digitizing old vinyl records. There may be more that I cannot yet foresee, therefore I need this PC sound-card to be as versatile/multi-featured as possible. Exemplary (subjective) sound reproduction at...

I have revisited the reviews on this forum that expounds the virtues of the NuPrime uDSD. Thanks too to the helpful people who provided additional information via PM. It consequently joins my shortlist which looks like this: M-Audio Super DAC Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6 (KA6) NuPrime...

Thank you Naughty for providing the pics and the screenshots of your personal setup, and for your comprehensive explanation. My thanks too, to everyone else contributing to the discussion. Considering the different hardware you all have targeted, I can only say that I do not yet comprehend the...