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Lou1z;267300 Wrote: > a nas can't do everything a pc can do!! Yep, true. But I don't *want* my NAS to do everything a PC can do. If I'd wanted that, I'd have bought another PC. My NAS runs SlimServer, handles network printing for my other machines, downloads podcasts, performs automatic backups to _'rsync.net' (http://www.rsync.net/)_*, is my Subversion server, and other stuff besides. I don't see the relevance of your virtualization argument, even though I concede you're correct that 2008 will be its big year. True there are potential power savings if one can run multiple virtual machines on a single physical box, but that physical box still consumes power. In the context of listening to music via a Squeezebox, I'd rather have a 15 watt NAS running, than have a virtualized (or even non-virtualized) Microslop O/S running on a machine which consumes ten times that. Horses for courses mate! A single headless low-power box does it for me. :-) * rsync.net is -very much- recommended, by the way -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43198 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
