Harry G;302035 Wrote: > > I'm thinking of having my local repair and "we build it for you" > computer shop put together a low powered machine to just stream music, > using the Inguz EQ plugin, into the Squeezeboxes and possibly stream > video to a few UPNP client devices that now stream from attached USB > drives. > > The plan is to run Linux, probably Ubuntu and do a software RAID 5 > using five 1TB drives. >
I would recommend, strongly, that you first take a random used PC and put Ubuntu on it. Learn how it works. get SqueezeCenter working on it. Yes, you can use any computer with a browser to control it, including tablets or laptops. I used a laptop, to the near complete exclusion of the remotes for my SqueezeBox and Transporter. If you are having it built, which is actually a pretty good idea, I'd go ahead and spring for a real Adaptec RAID controller. They work better, and are much more robust than the software stuff. And they are not really that much more expensive. Nearly any modern CPU will work, a low end dual core AMD is more than enough and very cheap these days. The OS doesn't really matter. I would not recommend learning Linux and SqueezeCenter and WiFi networking all at once. If you know Windows well, you can use it. But Ubuntu is very approachable and will run better than Windows on the same hardware than most Windows systems. Remember, RAID is not backup. You might actually be better off skipping RAID altogether and just have some external disks that you manually back up once a month. -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pfarrell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=200 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47243 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
