You have some pretty natural requirements there, but I feel you're going to have to prioritise them a little to make it easier to make a decision.
For example, a device that uses less electricity is going to have a smaller power supply because, ultimately, it's a less powerful piece of kit. A low powered dedicated NAS device may reduce your electricity bill, but it may not have enough horse-power to drive SqueezeCenter in the way you are used to. I tried SC on my Infrant ReadyNAS this weekend and found performance very average compared to a Windows laptop with less RAM. On the other side you have Windows Home Server based devices like the HP. They're Intel powered and can handle things a bit better...but they use more electricity in the process. It's basically a normal PC in a different shaped box and may even use more power than the PC on which you run SqueezeCenter now. Additionally you should be very aware that Windows Home Server is NOT ordinary Windows and does run a bit differently, especially if you intend to run programs directly on it. This article links to an example of this failing in a horrible way - http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1499 One low power option you could go for might be a cheap laptop with a big external USB drive on it for storage. It would be near silent and use much less juice than an equivalent desktop. -- jaffacake ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jaffacake's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3206 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47243 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
