menno;647998 Wrote: > Madness. Windows 7 minimum hardware spec is 1Ghz processor and 1GB of > RAM. Totally unnecessary for a Squeezebox server, and it leads to a lot > of power usage too. > > My Dockstar when streaming music, along the two USB drives connected > use up 10W in total according to my energy meter. > It would be simpler to take a squeezeplug-like device and provide a > simple web gui to administer it. Truehl has already made it very easy > with his Squeezeplug image. > > > > My Dockstar just works 24/7. I'm afraid I cant say the same for Windows > servers I used to have... > > As for RAID, I agree and dont use it at home. My main problem is > deleting files by accident, and then noticing a week later. It's why I > use daily rdiff-backup across my two drives. > > Cheers, > Menno
I have a Core I7 (quadcore) 2.8 Ghz and 8 GB RAM with Windows 7 x64 It takes about 3 minutes to scan my 8000 files library. This is too slow and not competitive with others softwares. Installing third party software on a NAS, means going into problems. NAS means Network Attached Storage, not Network Attached Server. The hardware is calibrated for the software shipped with it. Trying to use it like a real server means the same kind of problems you have with TinySBS and Touch hardware. In my opinion, acceptable performance for average users (who will never accept so slow scanning) means that SBS require much more performance than a dockstar. I wouldn't accept the performance of a dockstar for my library. I wouldn't accept 10W 24/7 for so little performance. Check what is available with modern hardware for power consumption, calculate how much $ the difference means per year, you will be very surprised. One again, unless you are doing p2p 24/7, it is a nonsense to have a server on 24/7 at home. Get a decent system with good WOL. Do you have problems with Windows 7 running 24/7 ? I have some, and it performs very well without problems. -- nicolas75 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nicolas75's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15823 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89143 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
