gharris999 Wrote: > What have been your thoughts about the ReadyNAS 600? I just got one of > these last week and upgraded it to a gig of RAM. So far, I've been > very disappointed with trying to run SlimServer on it. Infrant really > ought to say that it provides only "limited support" for slimserver, > since the version they make available to run on the box is > semi-crippled. Not so much crippled, but certainly limited. No ability to install plugins is the worst limitation. No custom skins, no ability to run beta versions, etc. I hadn't planned on running SlimServer on the NAS, so I'm not exactly disappointed. I figured it might be too slow for my tastes and wasn't terribly wrong. The time for a library scan would is an issue. The thing just isn't terribly quick at general computing tasks, but I wonder if they don't set application task priorities to be low in deference to tasks managing the disk array. I put 512MB in mine and I'm realizing now that was overkill, as the device doesn't appear to be memory bound in any way and I won't be running any applications on it.
> I just put together a linux server running Fedora Core 4 using an old > Pentium III box I had sitting around: ASUS CUSL2 mobo, Pentium III > 800mhz, 512mb PC 133 ram. Running Slimserver using MySQL as the > database backend, the performance is completely acceptable, even with a > pretty large music library (>12,000 tracks.) I need to conduct some > more tests, but I think that by throttling down the CPU fan, I can make > the box pretty silent. I have a couple CUSL2s at work that we'll probably be giving to charity or recycling soon. > I built 3 systems around the Shuttle XPC SB65G2 P4 barebones platform > late in 2003. They worked just fine for WinXP, but I have no idea how > well the Shuttle components work with linux. While I was please by the > compact form-factor of the boxes, I was disappointed by how noisy they > ended up being. Thanks. Noise isn't really a factor for me, but size is. I'd like to set it on a shelf with the NAS, a UPS, and a wireless router. -- JJZolx Jim _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
