Hi there, As my signature says, I've been using SB products for quite a while, and love the concept. For me, it's been a pretty stable platform too overall, probably because I don't tinker too much and work on the principle of "if it ain't broke...."
I currently run LMS on a HP PC. Not especially noisy, but not particularly quiet either. My wife has this thing about devices being left on, and pretty much runs a regime of switching the PC off when it's not being used. Of course, to her that means no one sitting in front of the monitor.. I think there's something to do with fire risk in her thinking too. It would certainly be cheaper ($, �) to change her thinking.... but, well...... maybe more expensive in the long-run. So, to try and get round that one I've started to think about a fanless server of some description - what I think would be described as a NAS set-up. I could explain that this was designed to be 'always on'. To be fair I'd like to think that it would also provide me with a more stable long-term platform to run LMS and the SBs, because PCs die or choke up eventually. Finally, as the kids get older, I start to be able to play music more again, and had wondered about re-ripping all the CDs as FLAC or some other loss-less format. I did them all as MP3s first time round. I have begun to consider a vortexbox appliance - a bit pricey, but it appears that it would do the ripping, tagging and storage in one package, but thought I'd look around first. So... as someone who just about gets along with computers when they are working OK, I thought I'd start my research here. I know a lot of folk are using something like this. Rather than jump in with dumb forum questions with no background info, I thought I'd research fanless servers first. A google search threw up this link: "wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Beginners_Guide_To_Serversâ" but it doesn't seem to work. I assume that's to do with the Logitech/Slimdevices take over etc etc, but I thought the wiki might still be alive somewhere? I thought I'd seen a post to that effect somewhere on here, and tried searching the forums first before posting, but couldn't find it again. Thanks for any pointers to the wiki, or other good (basic!) sources of info. I may come back with other questions about specific hardware, compatibility, ease of use etc later on, but at this stage I'm just starting out. Ta Donald SB "user" since 2000... 2 x SB1 ; 2 x SB3 ; 2 x Boom ; 1 x Touch ; 1 x Controller Windows 7 and LMS Version: 7.7.3 - 1375965195 Next step... a Vortexbox? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ donmacn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36036 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100416
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