Two suggestions: 1. Buy 2 HDs of whatever you are getting, and use the second one as your first-order backup (having a second-order backup to a different media like DVD-R). Sync all your music from HD1 to HD2 daily (there are a huge number of software packages that will do this for you; I use rsnapshot on Linux). That way when HD1 fails, you won't feel like tearing your hair out wondering why you didn't cover yourself for that inevitability.
2. Speaking of Linux...since you are talking about a *dedicated* PC, I take that as "this is my SqueezeCenter machine and nothing else". In that case, it's an absolute no brainer to use Ubuntu here. It's free, it's more stable, and it's dead simple to install. Have I mentioned how free it is? Your only issue may be in getting SqueezeCenter installed properly, but then--this is the ONLY thing you are doing with it, so why take a little effort and do it right? good luck, #!/ben -- bklaas "the Nokia770 skin guy" http://www.last.fm/user/bklaas/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40006 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
