jonathan said the following on 23/12/2005 10:26: > Hence the Linkstation, still in its box. On reflection, not sure that > its cost outweighs the PC power bill, though it's another piece of kit > with another set of flashing lights to have on my flight deck, and I'd > enjoy migrating my recently re-ripped lossless files from the PC. > > Except now I'm not so sure. I've read several reviews and followed > threads about using NAS devices and associated cumbersome installs, > poor performance, updates of Slimserver etc. And with never having used > Linux, the Slimserver install is daunting even with seven pages of > detailed instructions. > > So do I proceed down my ideal power-saving Linkstation route, or do I > return it for a refund? My feeling is that I'll ultimately be > disappointed and relunctantly revert to using my power-hungry PC with > numerous trips upstairs to start-up and shut-down. > > Any advice before the stores close for Christmas?
Jonathan, I've just done an install remotely for a client in Canada (I'm in the UK) and I was impressed with the performance (I was skeptical about the performance in only 64M RAM). There was only one gotcha I ran into - you can't use wma3 lossles on the mipsel Linkstation - the SB doesn't support it and there's no mplayer/ffmpeg availabe for the mips platform that can decode wma3. If you'd like me to install slimserver on your linkstation remotely then drop me a note off-list. Cheers, R. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
