I built a system recently that is working just great - performace is fantastic - I only have about 12,000 songs though - recorded in 230kbps mp3. I'd say that this was a "deluxe" system - but you might take the specs and put in a smaller disk drive and/or a slower CPU and you'd still be fine:
I could likely have put it together much cheaper - perhaps by getting a smaller disk or doing the "rebate" thing - but I've tired of filling out rebate forms! ;-) I spent (at newegg.com): Shuttle SK21G Short Form Factor PC (just the case) $179.00 512M: $31.00 AMD Sempron 3000 CPU: $85.00 WD 320G HD: $119.00 Asus DVD: $23.00 Total: $437.00 I can't recall all of the shipping charges - some of the items shipped free and some had a smal charge - but it was reasonable. I thought about just using some old disk drives that I have on hand. I have an old ATA 80G drive and a USB 80G drive and some older drives. I could have cobbled together enough disk space by using multiple old drives in a larger case. Actually, my previous version of this system was a Pentium II/266 wich used some disk space actually SMB mounted from another windows system! Kevin -- kkitts ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kkitts's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22506 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
