To rip all my CDs to flac I needed more storage anyway, so I went with a LinkStation HD-HG250. It's more expensive than a simple external USB or internal drive, but not that much more, and well worth it to me for being able to run slimserver. For a while I just used it to hold the music, and continued to run slimserver on an old Dell P3 running Ubuntu Linux. Last week I used the OpenLink firmware to hack the LinkStation and install slimserver.
I have seen lots of comments about rescans and the web interface being really slow when running slimserver on a LinkStation, but so far that hasn't been a problem for me. At this point my library is only about 3000 tracks, and I'm only driving one SB, so maybe the LinkStation will be more taxed as I add more tracks and more SBs -- we'll see. One thing to note is that the "Gigabit" LinkStations (the HD-HG series) have more RAM (128MB) than the HD-H series (64MB). I believe the HD-HG series also has faster processors. There's more info on the LinkStation wiki: http://linkstationwiki.org/Information/Information -K -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21082 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
