agillis;438570 Wrote: > I'm trying to design the ultimate NAS for SqueezeCenter. And I am > interested in getting some input from the community. I think we already > have the ultimate NAS operating system. VortexBox is light weight, fast, > easy to configure, ripps CDs for you, and it's free! > > Our appliance draws 24 watts, is fast, and high capacity (1TB). So > what's next? What direction should we go to make the appliance better. > Here are some possible design goals. What does everybody want the most. > > 1. Quiet - This seems like something people want unless there putting > their NAS is a closet someplace. Should we try to make the appliance > even quieter? Or maybe no moving parts at all, completely silent? > > 2. Size - If we removed the CD ripping drive we could make the NAS > smaller then a SqueezeBox classic. Are people interested in this? > > 3. Low power - 24 watts is very little power you can run the system for > $20 a year in power. But maybe we could make it lower power. Would > people be interested in a less than 10 watt appliance? > > 4. Bigger capacity - How about a 4.5TB NAS? Are people interested in > this type of capacity? Even if the noise and power consumption is > higher? > > > We are building VortexBox software and the appliance for music > listeners. Please post your comments and help us figure out what to > build next!
On smaller collection sizes, I really like the Vortexbox software and hardware. For me RAID is out due to how cheap large USB drives have become (why waste drive space for backup on a drive that might fail when I can just do REAL backups on cheap large USB drives). So hardware wise, I would like to see support for 3 to 6TB of music storage inside a Vortexbox that is as quite as possible with 3 to 4 WD Green Drives. Software wise, I would like to see the following. Support added for backing up to USB drives (could be a third Icon on the :9000 page). Support for actually running with only the OS on a SSD and all music on USB drives. Did I say better USB support? -- iPhone *iPhone* Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, Vandersteen Speakers: Quatro Mains, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Video: Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM Bedroom: SB3, GFR-700HD, Thiel 2.3, Second Boom Home Office: SB3, NAD C370, two VSM-1 Home Gym: SB3, Parasound Vamp v.3, Thiel PowerPoint 1.2 House Portable: SB3, Audioengine A5 Ford Thunderbird: Duet, Mac Mini Ford Expedition: SB3, ToughBook ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65338 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
