Beosound 5 with NAS

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edo69
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Posted October 7, 2014 at 08:34 GMT
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It's really a shame.

As all you know, the latest version of the Beomaster5 has an integrated Hard disk of 1 Tb capacity; that's not enough in case you have a lot of music to store in (that's my case).

In this case, B&O indicates to add a NAS, linked with the Beosound/Beomaster5 with an ethernet lan.

B&O also indicates the NAS must be a Iomega (now Lenovo); in case of any other brand they do not give any assistance.

So one year ago I did purchase a iomega NAS; I asked the price to some dealer, and anyone asked me why I wanted that kind of NAS, being present in the market more brands at the same price and more reliables than that.

But I did buy that Iomega Nas, and it was a complete disaster: the device never work, once I lost all the data stored in, and neither B&O and Iomega gave me any assistance.

Now, one year later, I decided to throw away the Iomega NAS and to replace it with a Qnap, and it seems it's working properly.

I do not any comment........

 

Location: San Marino

My B&O Icons:

Beosound-9000.png Beosound-9000.png
Beosound-5.png Beosound-5.png
Beosound-Stage.png Beosound-Stage.png
B&O fan since adolescence. I have a multi room audio-video system with Master Link connection. In 2016 integrated the system with Beosound 5. I'm satisfied 'cause I use it for hours everyday, but sometimes any device need reparation.
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ptbb (archived2)
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Posted October 7, 2014 at 09:43 GMT
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I have iomega for two years, but never had problems you have described. All my ripped bluray are stored on it. i am very satisfied with iomega.

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ptbb (archived2)
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Posted October 7, 2014 at 09:43 GMT
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I have iomega for two years, but never had problems you have described. All my ripped bluray are stored on it. i am very satisfied with iomega.

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ptbb (archived2)
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Posted October 7, 2014 at 09:43 GMT
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I have iomega for two years, but never had problems you have described. All my ripped bluray are stored on it. i am very satisfied with iomega.

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ptbb (archived2)
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Posted October 7, 2014 at 09:43 GMT
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I have iomega for two years, but never had problems you have described. All my ripped bluray are stored on it. i am very satisfied with iomega.

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flere
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Posted October 7, 2014 at 23:01 GMT
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I also had an Iomega NAS which became Leonov or something. Never worked reliable as the software and support were a disaster and costing me too much time.

So I got the hard disks out of the Iomega NAS, bought a Synology NAS station, put in the salvaged hard disks, reinitialized them, and have not looked back since. Synology work like a charm.

Iomega is on some dump site buried I think because I threw it away with the trash.

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Millemis
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Posted October 8, 2014 at 10:02 GMT
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Personally I would also go for the Synology.

The DLNA server-software is the important thing here - not that much which brand the NAS is.

I guess that B&O at that moment (way back) had tested the Iomega, and for that reason recommended it.

They would hardly recommend a NAS that has not been tested with the BS5.

MM

 

Location: Flensborg————Danmark

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edo69
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Posted October 8, 2014 at 22:38 GMT
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Dear Ptbb, you are a very lucky man. But not everyone has the same luck. Anyway, the purpose of my post is that B&O recommended the Iomega NAS and, when I had the problems did not give me any assistance. This could be too bad even for an unknown company that produces cheap devices. But we are talking about B&O......

Location: San Marino

My B&O Icons:

Beosound-9000.png Beosound-9000.png
Beosound-5.png Beosound-5.png
Beosound-Stage.png Beosound-Stage.png
B&O fan since adolescence. I have a multi room audio-video system with Master Link connection. In 2016 integrated the system with Beosound 5. I'm satisfied 'cause I use it for hours everyday, but sometimes any device need reparation.
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edo69
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Posted October 8, 2014 at 22:41 GMT
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You are right, the Iomega became Lenovo and its nas it's a complete disaster. I provided to replace it with a Qnap NAS and it's working fine. it looks like a dream......

Location: San Marino

My B&O Icons:

Beosound-9000.png Beosound-9000.png
Beosound-5.png Beosound-5.png
Beosound-Stage.png Beosound-Stage.png
B&O fan since adolescence. I have a multi room audio-video system with Master Link connection. In 2016 integrated the system with Beosound 5. I'm satisfied 'cause I use it for hours everyday, but sometimes any device need reparation.
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Mhampen
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Posted May 18, 2015 at 15:13 GMT
#2258760

Any suggestions on how to get BM5 to send the WOL (WakeOnLan) magic package so my NAS does not have to be running all times. 

I know my QNAP will take 10 minutes or so to boot but its only in the events that we wish to listen to music outside the scheduled awake hours of the NAS.

Just a sidenote: Do not have both DNLA server and TwonkyServer services running at the same time on QNAP NAS. Beomaster 5 will get very confused and will generate new MOTS every time it wakes up. 

Thanks

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