bits;696137 Wrote: > > I dont think making Squeezebox double as a NAS is at all smart. > -It'll cost too much to buy > -It'll be too big and ugly > -many users already have a more powerful server to use >
Have you heard of TinyLMS ? Cost : $300 for Touch + $100 for HDD. Size : size of the regular Touch. Powerful server : people nowadays buy laptops and tablets, not servers. Powerful servers consume too much electricity for my taste. I use my Touch with the local TinyLMS server a USB 2.5" hard drive attached. It works just enough to be usable. With twice the memory and twice the CPU in the Touch, I bet it would work very well (see SqueezePlug for example). Increasing the CPU and memory will come for free in the next rev of the Touch, thanks to Moore's law, and will be included anyway for more fancy client services and UI. I'm impatiently waiting for the Touch2 with great TinyLMS support (more memory, more CPU) to install one at my parents and one at parents-in-law, and I may even upgrade my own Touch. In other words, yes, some users require those features and are willing to pay. Regards, Jean -- jean2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jean2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33946 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94109 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
