Has anyone tried connecting a device such as this directly to their Zidoo? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06ZY6DK8N/ I was considering getting it to connect to my "server" as a less expensive option over a Synology NAS. I started thinking it might be worthwhile to just attach it directly to the player if the Zidoo can recognize 5 disks installed in one USB device.
Yes to both questions (if you use the single mode on the DAS for the first one). With the DAS in single mode, the Zidoo will start as fast as usual but it gonna take some times to identify each HDD individually when you are on the welcome screen of the player (around 1min, 1min 30).
I presume the Zidoo can also share them out on the network? I'm planning a second Zidoo at some point in the living room. If I don't go the NAS route it would be nice to just have one of these attached to the Zidoo in the home theater and the living room just pulling from the shared disks.
As long as the Zidoo is On, I have access to all the disks from my PC, using the SMB protocol. When I turn off the Zidoo, the Qnap goes in standby mode and it wakes up when I turn on the player, automatically in both cases. I suppose that to connect the DAS to the router (or a PC) could be an option; I never tried this.
Good information, thank again. I never thought about attaching to a router since some routers have USB. That would essentially make it a NAS but maybe without all the same features. The RAID option on the one I posted is limited but you could probably do software raid from a PC.
