I have just acquired 3 squeezeboxen and am now in the process of ripping my 1000+ CD's to FLAC. My next step is to set up a (mostly) dedicated music server.
I'd like advice about how to configure the server machine. I want as good performance as possible, so I'm not really looking for minimum requirements, more like generous. I have a robust 802.11g setup, my understanding is that this should be more than enough bandwidth even if I add another squeezebox or two. Obviously disk is mostly a matter of how much music, but one question I had was do people think using a RAID scheme is a good idea? Or is just having good working regular backups enough? More details, I'll be running Windows XP and, except when I'm ripping, the server will only be running slimserver (and maybe a home automation server but I know how to account for that). I'm planning on using an AMD processor, probaby an Athlon 64 but unsure on speed I need. Any suggestions about how much RAM? What about the general level of performance I should be looking for in the CPU? Any other advice on such a setup? Any tips for configuring slimserver for max performance? Thanks in advance. Scott -- smnettles ------------------------------------------------------------------------ smnettles's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3332 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19951 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
