snarlydwarf;258629 Wrote: > The question has come up before, and there are some NAS's that have > sufficient access and power to run Slimserver, though usually with some > performance limits. > > It goes back to having a machine with enough horsepower to run a pretty > complex and large database (cross indexing albums, artists, composers, > genres, years, etc...) without spending a ton of money... You would > have to either massively increase the CPU power of the player or the > NAS box.. spending money on the player is bad for people who either > don't need that functionality, or who have more than one player. (Ie, > if you have 2 players, it would be more cost effective to spend the > money on a server with more oomph than to increase the cost of each > player.) > > If you can deal with Linux (or have geek friends you can bribe with > pizza and beer) it isn't hard to put together a headless Linux box you > can hide in the garage or closet and use that as a server. A sort of > do-it-yourself NAS box. As you get addicted to the music, it starts to > pay for itself in enjoyment. > > (Gah, I played with SC7's new and improved syncing this weekend... and > especially with songs with just a tad of reverb for 'depth' it was > impressive to hear the echo from my bedroom player in the living > room... now I want a player for the bathroom, the spare room, the > office... I am glad I don't have to pay for the server horsepower on > each device.)
I have just placed an order on a QNAP Turbostation 209 Pro and 2 500 GB HD which I plan to hook up in a raid 1 configuration. I hope it will be able to do the job. At least it will be able to host all my CD's riped in FLAC. Looking forward to a hack to do the job on the server stuff. -- Danfan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Danfan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12505 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41813 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
