Any chance this box will be powerful enough to do the alienBBC transcoding?
I'd love a nice quiet low-power box to run SServer, but it also has to run AlienBBC. Again the 400GB version would be mandatory for me. On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 12:38 -0700, ultra238a wrote: > God you lot are hard to please!! :) > > @GregD > I would love to see more than 400Gb as well mate - dunno where I am > going to fit the drives though :) The box can take an external HDD on a > USB port on the back of the box but I don't think that would be any good > for you. Potentially if we could get the case re-engineered to take two > drives we could do what you want and it would give greater flexibility > - especially with Squeezebox 2 being so good at playing uncompressed > audio. Trust me though, the box is quiet - no fans what so ever and > very quiet drives. > > @Maditude > You've got to remember that this isn't just an external HDD in a USB or > firewire case and it does cost extra for the hardware to make it work as > a NAS drive. To be honest you wouldn't get much software working on the > box because it uses a strange CPU variant (couldn't have made it harder > for us if we tried!) that only runs a very strange version of Linux. > Don't worry about updates, this is one product I am passionate about > and it is going to get updates every time Slimdevices release one. > > @ModelCitizen > At the end of the day this product is going to be based on a standard > NAS product that is going to allow you to map it in as a network drive > on your XP PC or Mac - so no problems with backup. Projected price for > the 400Gb is going to be around 350 > 380 depending on the drive > price - remember our drives cost more because of the spec of the drive > (quieter, cooler and designed to be on 24x7). Don't worry about the > installation of the upgrade it is going to be as easy as copy the file > over to the box, telnet in to the box and type in one command to run > the installation file, really easy. > > Any more for any more???? :) > > Ultra238a > > -- "The biggest problem encountered while trying to design a system that was completely foolproof, was, that people tended to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
