volpone wrote: > So, i'm thinking on the best hardware (small, silent, powerfull, > secure, and reliable) to use.
As Tim says on Tool Time, more power, must have more power. Modern desktop PCs are near silent and far more powerful than needed for any combination of SqueezeCenter. My library is small, only about 200GB, and I use a left over PC that my kid decided was too slow. Any $400 PC sold at big box stores is more than enough, most have dual core CPUs and 2GB of disk, which is overkill for even Vista. I just build a dual library for a friend of mine, using a SATA disk that cost $100. It is a 750GB disk, and a complete 200GB flac library and a complete copy in MP3 left more than $70 worth of disk space free. And the disk, while aimed at the inexpensive market, was blindingly fast, a complete movie could be copied in under 10 seconds. "best" is an impossible criteria. But there are tons of options that are very good, robust, and inexpensive. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
