If your computer will be on whenever the Touch is being used you can setup a traditional Squeezebox Server on the PC and plug the external HD into the PC. Both the PC and SBS can access files on the HD.
If the PC will not be on when the Touch is being used you either have to have the server running on a NAS, or use the internal server and External drive. Some NAS solutions are not too expensive, a Vortex box works very well and comes preloaded with SBS. If you all ready have the external HD you can get a SheevaPlug ($99) and install the SBS software and plug in the existing HD. This works well but takes a little effort to get setup. Or as has been mentioned you can plug the external drive into the Touch and access it over the network from the PC. Since the Touch is primarily designed as a music player you might not get super high performance as a file server, especially if the Touch is playing music while you are trying to remotely access the files. I'm not sure any body has actually tested the performance as a file server. (It works, I'm just not sure how fast) John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71703 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
