It's pretty much there with Infrant's ReadyNAS (already mentioned on this thread). I've built my share of PC's, code for real-life 60 hours/week and wasn't about to build another one and spend hours/days configuring it. My time is more important now and the fun of tinkering wore off long ago.
Bought the ReadyNAS (actually the X6 box), and a new SB2. Plugged them both in, set IP addresses, cabled up to my amp, and that was it, about an hour. I now have RAID5 storage for my music and other stuff that's collected on various computers. SlimServer is *officially* supported by Infrant. I don't have to hack the box. Yes, this is less flexible than building my own PC. I'm at the mercy of the plug-ins that Infrant decides to add and the embedded NAS processor is certainly not a 3Ghz P4. But, it works out of the box, I have RAID protected storage, and music is playing now without any tinkering. I'd love to see SlimDevices OEM the Infrant development board (or for that matter anyone else's), wrap the SB2 and the NAS in the same sheetmetal, and go compete with AudioRequest and Escient. That's where the higher margin dollars are. Even better, it's an industrial design and business effort, not a technical one. ...alan -- commike _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
