Storage Options

Integrated and Flexible

Oladra offers two storage approaches because different users ask different things of a Digital Audio Source.

Integrated

Integrated is designed to optimise performance for most owners. It provides a simple, highly streamlined Core that is ideal for streaming services and a local library of up to 4TB. By keeping the storage envelope focused, the platform can minimise live ports, power rails, and interfaces — an important part of preserving the integrity of the environment in which the music signal is created.

Flexible

Flexible is designed for users whose needs sit outside that envelope. Some have very large libraries and prefer to keep them on a NAS. Some have attended carefully to their network and may find that playback from network storage brings advantages in their system. Others may wish to install larger SSD capacity within the Oladra itself. To support this, the standard Flexible configuration includes more resources than the Integrated option, allowing it to work comfortably with a very large library on network storage. An additional option activates two extra data-disk ports, making it possible to install user-supplied SATA SSDs for local libraries up to 16TB with ease.

For most users, Integrated is the simplest and best solution. Flexible exists to scale cleanly and confidently for everyone else.