I think someone should speak up for the windows platform......
Until recently I ran two Slimp3 (the original!) and 1 SoftSqueeze against an old Ahtlon 800Mhz running Windows XP and 10,000 tracks.
It ran for months at a time - normaly the only time I shut it down is when I go on holiday.
Everything pounded away quite nicely. My kitchen Slimp3 has the RSS ticker running whenever it is not playing music and runs 24x7.
Now I have upgraded the server (3.2Ghz P4 + stupid amount of RAM) - this was to speed up "Browse Music Folder" and be ready for new home projects. Ver 6.x is starting to resolve the "Browse Music Folder" performance.
I have since added an SB2 as well.
The system is very stable - I have managed to crash it once in the last 3 months. `
Some important points:
1. I do not use WiFi.
When I bought my house 7 years ago I decided to cable each room. As each room is renovated I put CAT5, UHF, SVIDEO and Stereo cables in. I still have a long way to go.
2. I only ever run the production release - never the development versions
I also normaly wait 2 weeks after a new release just incase any problems are found and fixed.
3. Using suggestions from www.teakxp.com I have turned off everything I could on the server
4. the hardware is solid. I soak test any machines I build for 72 hours before putting them into a "production" role. Research for good robust drivers is worth every second of time spent.
Windows has some major bad points but if done carefuly can very succesful. My next project is too add Exchange Server, Outlook Web Access and a HTTPS web site to the slimp3 server - it has plenty of capacity to run these as well.
Everytime I think about switching to Linux I think it is more hassel than its worth so I stick with windows.
To me SlimServer is amazing for free s/w - SlimDevices have never let me down and I wish more companies behaved as they did.
Gavin
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