I've been using my old PC to run SlimServer. It has a 250 gig internal drive for storing the music and I have an external 250 gig drive for back-up.
Recently, I installed SlimCenter on my 'main' PC to try it out and connected the external drive to play the music. I can't honestly say that the sound quality is any worse using this set-up, than when using the separate PC so I am asking myself if it is sensible to power up a second PC for say 8-10 hours a day when the 'main' PC is powered up anyway. If I want to be more frugal with my electricity consumption, I guess I could power up the external hard drive only when I wanted to listen to music, usually from about 16:00 to midnight, instead of having it powered up all day. Or does it shut down anyway when it is not required? If I move the internal 250 gig drive to the main computer, it will be powered up all the time the computer is on. Or will it? Is there a way to shut down that drive (in XP) until it is required? I also run a third PC upstairs mainly for use when reviewing stuff like USB DAC's in my second hi-fi. Like Secret Squirrel, I got hold of a (free) Pentium III 766 that was being thrown away, bought 512 meg of RAM off Ebay for a few pounds, and installed Ubuntu 7.1 on it. It just goes to show that you don't need to throw a lot of money at a computer music server! -- Nuuk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nuuk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4844 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47243 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
