My needs are similar to those of Ron M but a little more specific and for a larger music collection.
Currently, I have two wired and one wireless SB3's, streaming a library of 96,000 songs, mostly in flac from my home office XP machine running SlimServer 6.3.1 (I know its ancient but it runs and I've been too busy with work). I'd like to move my music playback to a dedicated server running SqueezeCenter to free up resources on my work machine and hopefully lower my electric bill. I'm in rural Hawaii. We have the highest energy costs in the country and with the oil situation, the surcharge goes up every month. Ready made machines like the HP home server make little sense here as any factory service is 2500 miles away. I'm thinking of having my local repair and "we build it for you" computer shop put together a low powered machine to just stream music, using the Inguz EQ plugin, into the Squeezeboxes and possibly stream video to a few UPNP client devices that now stream from attached USB drives. The plan is to run Linux, probably Ubuntu and do a software RAID 5 using five 1TB drives. I would like to control this, including boot, from an XP tablet and continue ripping and tagging at my office machine. Does this make sense? If so, can anyone suggest how fast a processor and how much RAM I need? Any reason I should use Windows Home Server instead of Linux? I should probably add that I know near nothing of Linux but am good at learning by doing and of the two key guys at the computer shop, one uses a simple Squeezebox system and the other has expertise with Ubuntu, so I'm not alone blundering in the dark. I hope to share with them any suggestions the group may have. -- Harry G ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Harry G's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1165 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47243 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
