Unfortunately I don't think this would work well, for several reasons:

- it's wireless.  It's a bad idea to have a wireless server.  All data
goes through 2 wireless hops, and with a device as server-dependant as
the Squeezebox, this is bad.  You're hamstringing yourself.  Now, some
people do this and it works for them, but if you have any wireless
bottlenecks, they will be made very apparent.

- there is no hacked 3rd party firmware that will operate on it and
allow you to install SlimServer is slim, no pun intended.  It does seem
to run Linux though as it has a Samba server, so in theory the firmware
should be available for others to hack.

- there does not seem to be any data on what type of processor it uses.
If it uses a generic 125 MHz networking processor, it'll be slow as
hell.  You also can't find out how much memory it has, which is even
more crucial to SlimServer.

Frankly the idea of a wireless NAS is a bit confusing to me.  Small,
fanless NAS devices like this, the Linksys NSLU2 and the Buffalo
Linkstation/Kurobox are best located near a router - close enough to be
wired.

I don't mean to run down this product if you like it but it seems to
have some very fundamental problems that would make it difficult to be
used as a SlimServer.


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