Hey all! 1st post here. I'm a Linux sysadmin at work, so I'm pretty comfortable with Fedora, RedHat, Linux, RAID stuff. What I'm not experienced with is ripping, sharing, and broadcasting music throughout my house.
I really want to buy a Transporter/SB3 combo for my house. Transporter would go on the tube audio-only system in the living room. SB3 would go on the home theater and use the Marantz preamp for the DAC. I decided on FLAC, as it gives me the most flexibility for the future. My wife can downconvert to mp3 and put on her iPod. I can do the same with my phone (Razor M), burn full quality CD's for work, and enjoy full resolution at home, without the huge CD rack between the speakers. Plus I get to enjoy a lot more of the CD's that I never quite loaded because I only like two songs (and who wants to get up from the listening chair for that :) ) Anyway, the server is a P4 (1.4GHz), 500MB RAM running FC6 Linux. I quickly realized the 80GB ATA100 drive was nowhere near big enough. I'll need 40 GB minimum, probably closer to 60, and that's just now. I foresee us buying more music now that it will be easier to access. So I want to set up a RAID array, but since my only experience is with dedicated $700 controller cards on a SCSI ultra320 drives, I think that's a bit much for my house. So: SATA RAID0? Just one larger SATA drive and hope nothing goes wrong? External setup with software RAID? What kind of throughput requirements does the Slim software require? Anyone tried this and have lessons learned? Basically, if I can do the storage for under $200, I will have enough to get a Transporter rather than just a squeezebox and wait a few months. All help appreciated! Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Anthony's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9088 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30765 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
