How would this set up handle slimserver?
What are the considerations between XP and Vista with respect to
slimserver and SB?
Is this a fast enough hard drive?
If I leave it on all the time, I won't face any WOL issues will I?
Intel®Pentium® dual-core processor E2140 (1MB L2,1.60GHz,800 FSB)
roll - gybe wrote:
> How would this set up handle slimserver?
Massive overkill, IMHO
> What are the considerations between XP and Vista with respect to
> slimserver and SB?
Use XP. or Ubuntu
> Is this a fast enough hard drive?
> If I leave it on all the time, I won't face any WOL issues will
Slimserver itself is fairly lightweight so that spec should be more than
sufficient. The hard drive speed is pretty irrelevant, the SB has a
large buffer so you won't notice any blips in the transfer.
For comparison, I was using slimserver and InguzDSP on a 1.8Ghz core
duo laptop which is only sl
i'd consider a mac mini.
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sugarmonster;240741 Wrote:
> Slimserver itself is fairly lightweight so that spec should be more than
> sufficient. The hard drive speed is pretty irrelevant, the SB has a
> large buffer so you won't notice any blips in the transfer.
>
> For comparison, I was using slimserver and InguzDSP on a 1
That'll work fine. I'd go with XP rather than Vista. Vista seems to be
a real pain in the ass, particularly with all the things they've thrown
in for the sake of "security" (read: protecting you from yourself).
If you go with XP Pro instead of XP Home then also you'll have a
built-in remote des
I also use an old throw-away PC with an upgraded IDE disk for a
dedicated slimserver. I found an old compaq 350MHz P3, 256MB ram. It
also does double-duty as a ripping machine (flac, so don't really need
much CPU time). It runs Ubuntu with no GUI. Works great.
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roll - gybe;240736 Wrote:
> How would this set up handle slimserver?
>
> What are the considerations between XP and Vista with respect to
> slimserver and SB?
>
> Is this a fast enough hard drive?
>
> If I leave it on all the time, I won't face any WOL issues will I?
>
> Intel®Pentium® dual
thanks for the feedback. the 2gb thing keeps coming back.
I'm running my collection (flac) off of a fast 4gb laptop right now.
Unfortunately, my XP laptop was stolen and I'm on vista now. That was
a kick in the nuts! I really don't like vista, but I'm aware that I
may need to just do it for t
I'm running Slimserver on a Celeron 600 with 512KB of RAM.
The main problem is that the drives churn if I run the web application
which, along with slim tray, java, etc. use up too much ram. Since I
rarely use the web ap, this isn't a big problem. In other words, if my
motherboard could take mo
roll - gybe wrote:
> I had heard vista takes 2gb. I didnt know if I could go with a 1 gb XP
> set up. I don't want to make a silly compromise - after all I have some
> serious gear at this point and I want good source material.
Even XP likes memory, and its fairly cheap these days.
Ubuntu is fr
I use a cast off Apple Emac 1.25G with a large usb hard drive. The good
thing about most Macs is that when they sleep, almost everything turns
off, no fans for power supplies or processor chips.
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I am running a small fanless VIA C7 1 Mhz processor and 1 gig of memory
on a mini itx board. Dead quite using a 2.5" laptop hard drive to run
windows XP and slimserver on.
All my music is on a 500GB My Book connected via USB.
Total cost of less than $500.00 US
Have run Inguz on this and it wo
Hi,
my Slimserver-Setup on Ubuntu:
p3-500
384 MB RAM
3x 250 GB as a raid 5 (added a SATA-Controller for that one...)
1x 80 GB as a multi-purpose-drive (sleeps most of the time - just
installed it because the drive was surplus somewhere else)
The server also acts as webserver, backup server and
gerph;240754 Wrote:
> I'd say based on my figures that if your 1.8G machine is using 20% of
> its processor time doing stuff for slimserver then that plugin is
> seriously sapping the life from the system, because just playing music
> should be using ~1.3% of the processor time for slimserver (yo
Two suggestions:
1. Buy 2 HDs of whatever you are getting, and use the second one as
your first-order backup (having a second-order backup to a different
media like DVD-R). Sync all your music from HD1 to HD2 daily (there are
a huge number of software packages that will do this for you; I use
rsn
Peter;240978 Wrote:
> Why not help saving the planet as well as your ears and run your testing
>
> machine on a virtual host under Xen?
Mmm...
1. The testing machine runs for about an hour a week. I only use it
when I'm playing with SC7 and Jive.
2. VM scares me, and although I have 2 GB i
I would go with the cheapest PC I could find and install Ubuntu on it.
The problem with cheap PCs is that they're noisy.
As a point of reference, my "production" SlimServer machine is my daily
desktop, Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 2 GB RAM, with a 250 GB 7200 RPM IDE
HDD as a music library, plus anot
Mark Lanctot wrote:
> I would go with the cheapest PC I could find and install Ubuntu on it.
>
> The problem with cheap PCs is that they're noisy.
>
> As a point of reference, my "production" SlimServer machine is my daily
> desktop, Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 2 GB RAM, with a 250 GB 7200 RPM IDE
> HD
Mark Lanctot wrote:
> Peter;240978 Wrote:
>
>> Why not help saving the planet as well as your ears and run your testing
>>
>> machine on a virtual host under Xen?
>>
>
> Mmm...
>
> 1. The testing machine runs for about an hour a week. I only use it
> when I'm playing with SC7 and Jive.
>
gerph;240754 Wrote:
> Uh... For comparison, I'm using a 500 MHz PIII in linux and, looking at
> the 'top' output which tells me processor usage, it's hasn't used more
> than 4% of the processor time whilst playing a track. mysqld sometimes
> takes a bit longer to do some of the searches, but then
great feedback guys. one thing about loving music is that i'm
constantly learning about gear.
in this case... ubuantausauau or whatever you are talking about.
seriously, i am sitting here at work with 4 monitors around me, and i
have no clue about computers. I have to go crying to my IT guy
roll - gybe;241474 Wrote:
> Is it more cost effective?
It's free - what have you got to lose? If you can't get it running,
install Windows on it.
> Is there a thread out there about setting up a dedicated box this way?
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38921
http://wiki.slimde
why not get a mac mini? $599? its small, quiet, has a linux heart and
a OS X wrapper.
AND, it can do other stuff too.
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