Michael Herger wrote:
I recently built myself a ITX based "slimserver appliance" for my own
use. Not cheap, not ready for that huge FLAC collection (due to 2.5HD),
In my experience, it's the storage that causes the bulk of the problems.
For example, I have a large flac collection and am currently using a
6x250GB RAID5 array (Linux software RAID), configured with a hot-spare,
giving me around 1TB (actually, around 960GB).
When I first built this, I found I needed to upgrade my PSU to cope with
the additional load. This, together with the noise from 6 x 250GB discs
is fairly substantial and unavoidable.
IMHO, the "best" solution is to locate the computer running slimserver
well away from your listening environment so noise is not an issue, and
size is less of a problem. It's cheaper too as you don't have to have
the server on display so looks are not an issue and you can use any old
frankenstein machine!
R.
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