snarlydwarf;218539 Wrote: > "enough of linux" would be pretty much what existing NAS boxes do. > > The catch is that for a lot of people a low-end NAS box is going to be > too slow to be usable. There just isn't enough CPU or RAM to make it > feasible. So increase CPU to a 1Ghz x86 and toss half a meg of RAM in > it... and now you are running a cheap PC or laptop... with all the > costs associated with that in heat. electricity and dissipation...
but the gap between even the best NAS box and a 1ghz half meg ram box is huge. and we know a device designed for a single purpose (music via SS>SB) would not need all that horsepower. in other words, a middle ground. i'll admit, i don't know what hardware could be gotten away with, or what power-needs, but the nokia bpa linked to sure does a lot in a small form factor, and i'd imagine, limited horsepower. snarlydwarf;218539 Wrote: > TCP/IP is cheap. I've run 9-port firewalls on a 386 with no real CPU > load. Remember TCP/IP is ancient and goes back to some painfully slow > by current standards machines. excellent point, but what i was driving at is that local access would remove that layer of complexity from todays implementations, (esp wireless SS to SB) which i think SD would really benefit from support-wise. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.5.4 (beta!?) - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37279 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
