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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 mistakenly emphasized the point about energy savings and that's probably not the meat of it. Simply put, I don't want to have to turn my computer on all the time to listen to music. It's not convenient or user friendly. My laptop sits in my office and my amps and speakers sit in the living room. When I come downstairs on a Saturday morning, I want to turn the amp on and start listening. I don't want to go into the office, wait for boot up, etc. And if I'm upstairs in bed and want to use my wireless controller to turn on the music, I don't want to have to go downstairs to do it. Maybe that leans towards lazy, but I think it leans more towards consumer friendly. You turn your amp on and you start listening. I'm sure in 5 years, we'll look back on that request and say, "uh, yeah, duh!" I am not saying that we should replace PCs with NASs. I agree, it is "half a crippled PC" and so the PC has its place for certain things. But in this case, it seems like an unnecessary middleman. But if one buys an NAS for the benefit of sharing the files across the network, then it seems like they should be sharable without any additional hardware. All of that said, I will research Windows Home Server and try to reduce my obsession with putting SC7 on an NAS. -- Omeriah ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Omeriah's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10330 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43198 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
