Agree, Purchased a cheap notebook computer for the task, I am thinking of atleast storing or my music + other stuff on a compact dedicated NAS box running 24/7.
JDH. danm;219421 Wrote: > Just curious. I took a spare, four year old Shuttle computer laying > around. 1.6GHz processor, 2 gigs ram, with two 160GB disks. Nothing > special, but this is the old Zen line which is very quiet (external > brick power supply). > > Anyhow it's got windows on it, I installed SS and my music and it's > running flawlessly. No configuration, no wasted time. It also has a CD > reader and EAC so it's the complete solution, and dedicated to serving, > ripping, and holding my music. > > The beautiful twist is that I have it suspend after an hour of no use. > If it's down when I try to listen a WOL packet wakes it right up. If > it's turned off it's the same, and up and running in less than a > minute. > > It's low power, quiet, powerful, cheap, upgradable, and easy. Why mess > with any of the boutique NAS solutions? -- jdh500 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jdh500's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11601 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37416 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
