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Phil Leigh;266692 Wrote: > > To me this is pointless. A NAS is half of a crippled PC. I don't want > one in my house. If I did, I'd use Windows Home Server. > I just don't get this obsession with a device that can't do half of the > things I want to do...like run Moose, MusicIp GUI, EAC, Tag etc...never > mind browsing the Internet, email blah blah. > My PC runs 24x7. It goes to sleep and consumes almost no power when I'm > not using it (ie 16 hours a day). > I don't want to mess around with variants of Linux(but have no issue > with those that do). I want choice and that means a proper computer and > a world of software which is generally easy to install and configure. > YMMV > I was going to do an almost identical rant! I have no idea why people think they can and "should" install SC on a NAS. That makes just about as much sense to me as trying to install SC in my lawn. You're trying to do something -the device was never meant to do-. So of course it will be hard and of course it'll never perform well! I applaud the brave hackers who did manage to bash SS/SC into a NAS, but no one should be under the impression that it's easy, that it'll work well or even that it's the "norm". Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Oh and I don't want to hear any more about saving the Earth and power savings and all that. Don't run a P4 Northwood or (gasp!) a Prescott and take advantage of a modern PC's power-saving functions. Just because modern PCs have 500 W power supplies doesn't mean they use 500 W all the time! And if you really want to save the Earth, look to mini-ITX boards. Some are fanless and use as little as 5 W... -- Mark Lanctot Ben Klass: "I won't even eat a pre-7.0 meal. Well, unless it involves bacon." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43198 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
