bergek;173422 Wrote: > The home server is quite different from a desktop computer. > > In my world a desktop computer at home is the computer most people > would see as "the computer". I don't know about you but I have yet to > experience a desktop computer with a performance that I can live with > that is quiet. Also they tend to draw a lot of power. Hence, the > desktop computer is usually offline. Running a 3GHz+ computer in order > to shuffle 1Mbps of data over the network also seems like a complete > waste of CPU. > > The home server is totally different. It's a computer that is on all > the time. Doesn't draw much power and therefore doesn't require any > fans. Personally I have two mini-itx computers, running Ubuntu Linux > and ClarkConnect respectively. > > A lot of people are getting NAS boxes, not specifically for Slimserver > but because it makes sense to store data on a home network. Much of the > recommendations in these forums makes suggestions about all-in-one boxes > acting both as NAS and SS (e.g. Infrant). Perhaps it would make sense to > make a pre-configured SS running on a Soekris or a PC Engines WRAP that > would just find any shares on the network and make that music > available. If only SS didn't require so much resources. > > Another thought: Why not recommend people that find it difficult to use > EAC/Flac or similar to use Windows Media Player and encode to WMA > lossless. They could then be provided with an application that > transcodes the WMA file to Flac, store it on a NAS, copying cover art > and tag information before the original WMA file is deleted.
Sounds great - I'd love to play with the mini-ITX stuff or even the PC104 stuff. And yes, I agree that conventional computers are far too noisy. If I was to go this route I'd go totally fanless all the way. It's difficult to find all these parts, you'd have to go with a fanless mini-ITX board along with a fanless laptop-brick-type power supply. These parts are out there - they're not easy to find or cheap, but they're out there. I just didn't understand why you feel you needed a desktop computer for use with SlimServer if you already had a dedicated server running SS. SlimServer would work very well on a mini-ITX server setup. I was wondering what you needed the desktop for after that. Again, I must have misread. -- Mark Lanctot "It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response." - Jon Heal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31879 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
