You could probably get loads connected at one time, especially if none of them are playing. If you had the screen completely turned off when is 'standby' the server is only really waiting for a device to wake up when the power button is pushed and is doing very little else.
Really depends on what NAS box you are looking at though (remember, the original NAS systems were high end storage server with dual or quad processors running server software - Windows2000 Server for example. So not all NAS boxes are created equal). Iæm assuming you mean a consumer oriented device like a Qnap TS-101, Linkstation, Diskstation, etc though. EDIT: The Qnap TS-101 can handle two seperate SB3s listening to two seperate AlienBBC streams (this is ecoding RealAudio and encoding it to FLAC) at the same time, so doing something less processor intensive is going to be much easier. If your collecting is in MP3 i would guess you could have half a dozen devices playing seperate playlists. FLAC files are going to be more demanding, not on the processor, but on the network bandwidth. Your guess is as good as mine right now on the number of devices playing. -- funkstar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26808 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
