heinkraanen Wrote: > Thanks very much for your extended reply. Very useful. I have also > already contacted the company, and they said aproximately what you > said. I think I will stop my quest, have a look on the Kurobox, and I > might end up keep on running slimserver on my normal PC/Laptop. I don't > wanna buy just another PC. I will still buy a NAS server, to sore all my > files on, and using the other possibilities, such as the backing-up, > mail server, webserver etc. > > Regards, > > Hein
Glad you weren't offended. If you're looking at running SlimServer on a normal PC/laptop as you indicate, then all you need is a hard drive to store your music files. Usually you just add an internal hard drive to store your music files and an external hard drive in a USB 2.0 enclosure to back them up. Unplug the USB 2.0 drive and store it away from your PC for protection. If you want a mail server/web server/file server you might want to take a look at 'ClarkConnect' (http://www.clarkconnect.com/community/). It's a Linux distribution designed specifically for this purpose and can run on some pretty low-power hardware, but it has to run on a PC. If you go with a fanless VIA board, you'll have something as quiet as any NAS and way more powerful and flexible. Also, and this is the best part, ClarkConnect supports SlimServer! At one time I believe it was a standard module although it could be included in the package now. It can be fairly easily installed if it isn't included - a lot easier than installing SlimServer on a NAS, at any rate. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22820 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
