I've been investigating options for building my own music server, and I wanted to run something by everyone here and see what they thought.
I currently have a new Airport Extreme Base Station and a 2 yr old 2GHz Power Mac G5 Desktop with 2.5GB RAM that isn't being used (I have a newer MacBook Pro that's my main computer). I was thinking of dropping two 1TB hard drives into the G5 and turning it into a RAID server for my music. Then I would patch it into my Airport Extreme (via one of the ethernet ports) and a Transporter could pull music files wirelessly to my stereo setup. And since the Mac is already loaded with iTunes, I can rip my CDs in iTunes with Apple Lossless and Slim Server will read them. Does this scenario make more sense than buying a NAS device, since I already have the G5 and can put up to 4 internal hard drives in it (using a G5 Drive Bracket to expand the number of drive bays)? Or am I missing anything that makes this unfeasible/impractical? Thanks a bunch. -- kearhear ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kearhear's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14486 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41233 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
