NAS, Hard Drive or something else entirely ?
I have been playing with my SB touch over Christmas, its been sitting in system and somewhat unused of late but coupled with a remote control app on my phone I can see lots of upsides but 1 big downside.
The downside is I have the squeeze box server on my home pc which means I have to have it running all the time!
My initial though was to buy a Synology NAS and some drives but the cost starts to mount up and I see loads of posts about connectivity issues so I am thinking about other routes.
The SB touch outputs to either a Young Dac or a Topping D50 via USB with a preference for the Young Dac quality wise, I find its more musical than the Topping albeit at a price. I have other devices on the coax and optical inputs.
So the big questions are
1. is there a low cost NAS solutiion
2. Do I junk the SB touch and try a Pi with I guess 2 USB sockets, file input and music out
3. Try a USB hub to increase the number of USB sockets and get the Touch to do the decoding (doesnt sound a great idea to me)
4. Try something else entirely