Storage Options

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

Base

The Base option 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.

+ Storage

The + Storage option is being worked on and 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 + Storage option allows your Oladra to work comfortably with a very large library on network storage, activating two extra data-disk ports, making it possible to install user-supplied SATA SSDs for local libraries up to 20TB with ease.

For most users, the Base option is the simplest and best solution. The + Storage option exists to scale cleanly and confidently for everyone else.