I built a nice custom linux server/desktop machine. It does a number of duties besides just LMS. It hosts files for my mac mini (still trying to decide if I like XBMC or Plex as a UI for that). I also use it as a primary desktop for browsing and photo editing. It also runs a number of VMs for testing some routing configurations.
My shopping list looked like this: Lian-Li PC-Q08 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112265 Intel mini-itx mainboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121513 I would probably get this one now: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121597 The only bad part of this board is that it only supports 4x SATA and I had to use the PCIe slot for a SATA board. If I didn't use it as a desktop, I would have probably gone with a supermicro Atom D525 server board because they support IPMI. http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA-HF-D525.cfm Whatever CPU and ram floats your boat, I went with 8G of ram and i5-2400S I have 6x WD RE4-GP 2T server drives setup with Linux software raid. I have a small mirror setup for the root fs, 140G of space for the rest of the OS and 100G for /home. Then the rest of the space (7T) is a raid6 volume for backups (crashplan of my family's laptops) and other media. I also have an external USB-3 drive or two that I offline backup the important stuff to, like my FLAC files. Of course, none of this is audiophile related, except that I have my audio system (Transporter, Revel speakers, Musical Fidelity amp) networked to it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95477 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
