On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 16:54 -0800, CavesOfTQLT wrote: > pfarrell Wrote: > > I bought mine, because the SB is silent in my audio system. > > The fans and disks are in the basement. > > > let's say it's one of those fancy fanless motherboards, 0dB > powersupply, very quiet harddisk, and I've said all this can be hidden > away in a cupboard anyways, with just the screen and mouse available.
I couldn't find a way to get one of those cheaper than a SB. I have lots of old PCs around the house. My slimserver is in the basement, even better than your cupboard. I never touch it. I just checked 20:30:03 up 185 days, 8:35, I mean literally, I haven't touched the box in months, even to dust it. It just sits in the basement and stores music and runs the slimserver. > One in each room, running softsqueeze, and all the music is held on one > of these computers. Do I really need an actual hardware SqueezeBox? I would say not, but I'm not convinced it would be cheaper, lower in power, or as reliable. There is nothing to break in a SB, the wallwart draws very little, I've already got Ethernet and WiFi. I had a problem with one of my SB's (I've bought three) and I don't remember even what it was. I called support, got an RMA, and got it back in a week. I was hoping that they'd replace my SB1/G with a SB2, but it came back exactly the same as I sent, just fixed. > It's just that I have this nagging doubt in my head that maybe I'm > spending cash when I don't really need to... So give it to me. The money, the SB, whatever. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
