Mark Lanctot wrote: > I would go with the cheapest PC I could find and install Ubuntu on it. > > The problem with cheap PCs is that they're noisy. > > As a point of reference, my "production" SlimServer machine is my daily > desktop, Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 2 GB RAM, with a 250 GB 7200 RPM IDE > HDD as a music library, plus another 250 GB 7200 RPM IDE HDD in a USB > enclosure as a backup. Ubuntu 7.10 64-bit. Massive overkill, yes. > But it does come in handy for encoding, FLAC -8 and MP3 -V6 in under 30 > seconds per track! And obviously SS is super-responsive. > > My "testing" SqueezeCenter machine I bought because it was cheap and I > needed a secondary PC for other purposes. AMD Duron 1.2 GHz, 512 MB > RAM. Ubuntu 7.10 32-bit. It's using the music library from the > production machine. Still seamlessly responsive, even rescans of my > 4500 tracks take 8 minutes across the network! Much noisier than the > production machine, which is the main downfall of cheap computer > hardware. >
Why not help saving the planet as well as your ears and run your testing machine on a virtual host under Xen? Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
